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7 L% q ` A" |+ `( \3 ^- _* IOne of my patients, a successful businessman, tells me that before his cancer he would become depressed unless things went a certain way. Happiness was "having the cookie." If you had the cookie, things were good.$ F% G/ t. y% n% M
5 S2 p. s, r6 j5 H1 \/ ?- f2 V" o我有一位病人，他是一个成功的商人，告诉我，在他患癌症之前，凡事如果没有确定下来他就忧心忡忡。对他而言，幸福是“拥有小甜饼”。
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.* u4 B/ F) @) r& }5 C
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如果你拥有了小甜饼，一切都一帆风顺。如果你没有小甜饼，生活就一文不值。
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. ]( I# _- Y( Y- \Some of the time it was money, sometimes power, sometimes sex. At other times, it was the new car, the biggest contract, the most prestigious address.7 L) ]7 ~% L. x) B. b; P- ~
/ m1 }+ I3 J3 P3 F- D2 m3 H不幸的是，小甜饼总是不断变换着，有时是金钱，有时是权力，有时是欲望。在其他时候，它是一辆新车、一份数额最大的合同、或者一个享有声望的通讯地址。
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A year and a half after his diagnosis of prostate cancer he sits shaking his head ruefully. "It's like I stopped learning how to live after I was a kid.$ E6 n$ R8 T' a8 p1 H
1 W# l" i k9 ?' E) W2 d1 O" V在他被诊断出患有前列腺癌的一年半之后，他坐在那里，悲天悯人地摇着头，说：“长大以后，我好像就不知道怎样生活了。
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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.% \. X |3 ~. `8 b3 m* O
0 V" j( q) ?0 ?8 o% _9 w: E8 _. \0 k当我给我儿子一个小甜饼时，他心花怒放。如果我拿走甜饼或者是小甜饼碎了，他就闷闷不乐。
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3 w9 Q2 W/ |! w, v( Z, G, I5 lBut he is two and a half and I am forty-three. It's taken me this long to understand that the cookie will never make me happy for long.8 i/ s2 h, C; a& r( q
# n, a2 @) r) J! Z不同的是，他只有两岁半，而我已经 43 了。我花了这么长的时间才明白小甜饼并不能使我长久感到幸福。
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9 f) U f6 D5 RThe minute you have the cookie it starts to crumble or you start to worry about it crumbling or about someone trying to take it away from you.5 P7 |: h- m7 |' Q
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从你拥有小甜饼的那一刻，它就开始破碎，或者你就开始担心它会破碎，抑或你开始担心别人拿走它。, ~2 |6 b4 w4 p( ~# L: a* S% v3 y
& \) o% t4 C3 d/ uYou know, you have to give up a lot of things to take care of the cookie, to keep it from crumbling and be sure that no one takes it away from you. 3 j9 ?+ ?' k( `8 O) w# ?+ ?
7 s/ g+ `) [$ r0 X5 `为了守护你的小甜饼，为了防止它破碎或者确定别人不会从你手中夺走它，你不得不放弃许多东西。
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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.$ c2 y( {/ i) O
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。0 G% i0 _9 y) y* q9 s
& y/ r% a, w8 F6 y7 lHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.3 j7 I, r. _. U6 H& I% }
! a# ?( c5 \* X. g拥有小甜饼并不是生活的全部内容。”我的病人笑着说癌症已经改变了他。+ c5 i! A5 @% C
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For the first time he is happy. No matter if his business is doing well or not, no matter if he wins or loses at golf. "
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/ e. H( ?% o# U0 Y5 J5 |不论他的生意是否一帆风顺，不论他在打高尔夫球时是输是赢，他有生以来第一次感到幸福。
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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$ f3 ^% U$ l* K$ l- r“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。
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7 d7 G. [/ ?2 oLife. Life any way you can have it, life with the cookie, life without the cookie. Happiness does not have anything to do with the cookie; it has to do with being alive. Before, who made the time?" He pauses thoughtfully. "Damn, I guess life is the cookie."- h3 q% {2 p$ H9 q2 H' N# ~
, P' H ~! u* @1 _7 Q生命。生命，无论如何你拥有生命。有小甜饼也罢，没有小甜饼也罢，幸福与小甜饼并非息息相关，而是与生命的存在有关。可是，时光一去不复返，谁又能让时光倒流呢?”他停顿了一下，若有所思，说：“该死，我觉得生命就是那块小甜饼”。8 F5 W" {5 `4 R; \5 d/ E4 J
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