He shook his head. “No way I could go back. I am a different self now. I'm different in my attitudes.
I'm different appreciating my body, which I didn't do fully before.
I'm different in terms of trying to grapple with the big questions, the ultimate questions, the ones that won't go away.
“That's the thing, you see. Once you get your fingers on the important questions, you can't turn away from them.”
“And which are the important questions?” “As I see it, they have to do with love, responsibility, spirituality, awareness.”
“And if I were healthy today, those would still be my issues. They should have been all along.”
I tried to imagine Morrie healthy. I tried to imagine him pulling the covers from his body, stepping from that chair,
the two of us going for a walk around the neighborhood, the way we used to walk around campus.
I suddenly realized it had been sixteen years since I'd seen him standing up. Sixteen years?
What if you had one day perfectly healthy?I asked. “What would you do?” “Twenty-four hours?” “Twenty-four hours.”
Let's see... I'd get up in the morning, do my exercises, have a lovely breakfast of sweet rolls and tea,
go for a swim, then have my friends come over for a nice lunch.
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