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" Y3 y) B& |. I$ V0 `生命就是小甜饼：7 j+ c* w: u( c' s1 n% y" e7 C
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.' e/ P- v" ^7 t* [6 T! I$ e2 [( t
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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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% b6 C4 t1 J2 w' T; gIf 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。' c& P" t4 X# v
: n8 ^3 E, |& S) {9 I9 }5 OSome 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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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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- D+ f" y$ _/ e8 f* tA 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.& K) p5 y. g) I) ~: V
7 n8 l& R" Y# H* f f$ I" C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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# l7 M" I8 i h* q' {: I/ gWhen 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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; J% ^7 y7 L- ^/ Z9 _$ ~) B9 Q0 q4 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。! X# u/ e4 { K
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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.6 H# D% `% B: N, c: g- `
u) X. k3 z* d5 d/ s: g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。9 T. P' X2 k% Y p( A
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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.4 `* o! \" I8 \. g
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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。
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. O% ^4 b/ [6 vYou 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. ( S# A9 U* W* B. Z
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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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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。/ Y5 c8 h0 W+ u6 ~
2 L" m$ w) Z1 z4 W7 \" w1 g2 PHaving 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。1 e7 K) W# A7 c9 B- x% h$ d& d. w8 l
: b5 Z: {. o. q" d; SFor 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. "/ x# y: \/ X. w1 Z. D
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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。& Y7 p* Z" z1 {# ]7 J
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.4 N' I" I" k+ d3 U
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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。2 O& c" z; x! A3 z7 h* ~
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Life. 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."' N7 @$ D% G; Y
% r* j/ r2 G: w) a8 Y! t, e; l5 ^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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