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生命就是小甜饼：: Q% _# p; B- ?7 c! G
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.3 D0 k3 Z F% Z6 A2 q. E0 Q- T" |
" U! @4 i- w: P9 p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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/ l) D# v$ [" D& ?% M3 N/ V7 N$ \If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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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。- J; m8 }; [" y& r) I; ]$ H7 c; m4 r
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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.9 j5 B/ T) B. j+ S, ?2 ]0 s
~0 j$ |9 _, f7 `4 c2 |* E$ S$ 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。
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/ W4 c: B* A# ]7 d! D5 XA 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.) l2 I; y4 Z$ Y7 ~4 |$ j% i
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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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+ x+ k t! s" R; |When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.* ^: j6 V8 v' |1 `
* l0 {1 E3 d5 X: n0 P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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% b; a/ N) n( y M3 w. _: WBut 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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$ B; n0 W) y% X* V: ?) Y" {6 G, H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。8 m2 _) t2 _- D) o' F5 }2 `8 V
, t8 t- O* x V( nThe 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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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。# O: E% z9 v8 t* a2 Z
& q6 U" |! ^1 k- _. wYou 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. 8 h. p. h7 L6 e* }$ Z7 B0 O
`6 l4 ~$ M4 Y% K2 W8 Q$ R4 N+ H. {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.6 E; H/ Q2 }+ t/ \9 K3 c t
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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( R& S3 U. ^! k3 i ~5 D4 mHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.2 n5 D+ e# o( p8 j" ^8 F b& y k
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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。( P E) x( h* e0 b" ]( \
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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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9 L3 X) X& k8 w3 F2 {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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8 X! x0 _! \6 u5 n- |/ `, ~Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.1 \7 n8 s' I, G) e0 S k# {$ L
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“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。, r7 c$ I0 M& A, |7 R
$ ]0 }: S$ X y! f& `9 SLife. 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”。
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