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生命就是小甜饼：! | X. `% n# ?5 ?$ S8 f
One 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.
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- s' r3 H8 H. B9 U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”。" w- h. I$ @' l2 X5 `
& p# ?( R% j8 d3 ?, gIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing./ j4 `& @1 g" f6 ?
u0 X2 P- X8 W# h8 u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。 u" X# i( X* Q' Q
$ n: C) i/ ]; ~( lSome 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.
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: C" L- R7 j* p. |' `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。4 n' {, U( }$ ~7 g
$ ?1 f9 g2 w! \$ n: K& GA 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.0 u8 n8 t+ \* D
/ O3 u" K, U* M b {9 |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。: U7 }/ Z/ ~4 j5 A/ X7 H* v
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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.
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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 i/ K, q5 t$ r; t' |, iBut 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.
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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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. ?3 M; K3 ]/ Z8 iThe 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.
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" M7 v* f9 P) t6 o- ~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。4 L' }6 R/ s2 ?( e0 i" y( {2 M- n
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You 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.
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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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8 P, N, \# {7 z5 }: q- L- N7 Z3 aYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.0 `0 G7 J# b( L0 |3 }' V$ j
1 e. ~: i! ]6 v, s0 X/ Q. P& n你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。. t0 E7 z6 E* T A$ d( m3 {
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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: O2 O6 j% I, NFor 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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' A; N2 F) l q0 [1 c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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9 q. v( \. l( o3 w“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。/ E& b S4 @6 f6 G
+ k' R% {: ^8 t4 P+ U \, y3 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."
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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”。, V8 {; G0 C) V" u; d" b
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