生命就是小甜品

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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.

' d( r% V' ~2 `) q( D% _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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& n( X% n7 G4 `+ K  UIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.

6 A- D% o6 O/ S8 f5 A, h+ T' {: O" ^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。

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.
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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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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.

6 F/ a4 V. X1 `3 B' d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。

! V2 u$ ]: U$ lWhen 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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! k1 c4 a+ K; p7 f" a7 l( g. L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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% I( x6 [, l9 f0 f3 ?; m' 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.
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% h% \% u8 Z0 e1 b, x7 n3 T# o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 {3 p$ B4 ]% h. e4 Q  G) QThe 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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4 N% k0 U& B9 K9 E5 h/ Y! \; `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。

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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. ^/ q. _/ v6 n  ^! g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。

You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.

' y! S& Q6 n9 @" @你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。

4 e" E+ u# s; y" u; M2 L3 m  ~Having 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。

: a: V9 z* n$ j( p' u& pFor 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. "

( q7 p. @! E7 T- i, R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。

8 x( F' j( U4 M1 `. R5 |Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.

; x% q) F. I" 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。
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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."
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9 I( w) _6 y* v4 A# H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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