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1 j |. ]/ r. Y8 hOne 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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6 k$ s5 n$ T$ l/ ? s8 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”。: h2 v& c, X. i# q, _
4 g5 E! T+ o+ u& Z9 T6 E: dIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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; R' l" Z9 p! o- B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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% g5 f, k* x7 z1 J- T7 vSome 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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' E5 W; s, I i9 r! a8 k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。6 Q1 f6 G/ I e/ m6 q" T% y
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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.; b& D1 Y% T" D/ Y2 ]! n. [# g% X, ]
9 U, n* y' h: `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。1 d4 I* u( S g3 k+ f& x
( F: ~# U+ y2 m- r8 k* L, }When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.6 I7 C0 K" H& \
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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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But 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 j8 x, l/ g# _5 }
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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。7 k; \+ Q( E8 g3 n1 n
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The 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." R. i" }3 p$ h5 ^3 V+ [3 r
8 O9 w+ C% `3 [! D, v3 d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。
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8 h: u" u, d5 c, R$ LYou 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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4 z4 Z: s/ N% H( @; o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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1 u1 l* @! f ]+ C! GYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.4 P1 Q: w% |. V
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。7 W) |% z/ U. w+ n9 R: g; O
: f- y; {# R; {" O1 x5 sHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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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。
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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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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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H7 w3 y+ s# a+ Q2 P& v“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。( }' x; l/ L6 h3 f: g$ E4 o
7 t5 y2 i: `% L8 Z7 x* tLife. 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”。7 N; ^; r @' ]1 O' g
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