Have you ever tried anything like this before?the nurse asked.
Not in this life.” “And how do you feel right now?
I don’t know. A bit strange. But I don’t want to die any more.
And the nurse scribbled on the form. Through the window, after the nurse had gone,
she watched the trees’ gentle movements in the afternoon breeze and distant rush-hour traffic shunt slowly along Bedford ring road.
It was nothing but trees and traffic and mediocre architecture, but it was also everything.
It was life. A little later she deleted her suicidal social media posts,
and – in a moment of sincere sentimentality – she wrote something else instead.
She titled it “A Thing I Have Learned (Written By A Nobody Who Has Been Everybody)”.
A Thing I Have Learned (Written By A Nobody Who Has Been Everybody)
It is easy to mourn the lives we aren’t living. Easy to wish we’d developed other talents, said yes to different offers.
Easy to wish we’d worked harder, loved better, handled our finances more astutely, been more popular,
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