2012-8-24可樂分享美文《A Truth o…

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[00:03.17] A Truth of Life
[00:06.46] One of my patients, a successful businessman,
[00:10.28] tells me that before his cancer he would become depressed
[00:13.78] unless things went a certain way. Happiness was “having the cookie.”
[00:18.48] If you had the cookie, things were good. If you didn't have the cookie,
[00:23.19] life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
[00:28.22] Some of the time it was money, sometimes power, sometimes desire.
[00:33.47] At other times, it was the new car, the biggest contract,
[00:37.51] the most prestigious address.
[00:39.48] A year and a half after his diagnosis of prostate cancer
[00:43.53] he sits shaking his head ruefully.
[00:46.16] “It's like I stopped learning how to live after I was a kid.
[00:49.55] When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks,
[00:55.13] he is unhappy. But he is two and a half and I am forty-three.
[01:01.35] It's taken me this long to understand
[01:03.43] that the cookie will never make me happy for long.
[01:06.16] The minute you have the cookie it starts to crumble
[01:09.33] or you start to worry about it crumbling
[01:11.96] or about someone trying to take it away from you.
[01:14.36] You know, you have to give up a lot of things to take care of the cookie,
[01:18.52] to keep it from crumbling and be sure that no one takes it away from you.
[01:22.68] You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy,
[01:26.83] just trying not to lose it. Having the cookie is not what life is about.”
[01:32.63] My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
[01:36.78] For the first time he is happy.
[01:39.52] No matter if his business is doing well or not, no matter if he wins or loses at golf.
[01:46.19] “Two years ago, cancer asked me, ‘Okay, what's important?
[01:50.89] What is really important?’ Well, life is important. Life.
[01:56.58] Life any way you can have it, life with the cookie, life without the cookie.
[02:01.50] Happiness does not have anything to do with the cookie;
[02:05.55] it has to do with being alive. Before, who made the time?” He pauses thoughtfully.
[02:13.42] “Damn, I guess life is the cookie.”