“Maybe that’s what all lives were, though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself.”
- Matt Haig, The Midnight Library
今年十月份读的一本书，挺温暖的，而且很适合喜欢沉浸于小遐想的自己。如果把自己想活的人生都活了一遍，最后会选择什么样子的归宿呢？这个其实就是用一个思想实验在问自己：到底怎么样的人生才是自己想要的？
作者似乎也经历过抑郁，所以可以很细腻的描写出人们在那种情绪下的绝望感。而如何让一个人从绝望走向希望? To feel love, to see hope and potential. The world does not have to change a single thing to make you better, you just need to have a different perspective. This is a mind trick. We actually don’t need to experience all these possibilities, we just need to be able to imagine the potential, that’s all.
这又涉及到了另一个课题：如何活在当下？我们有时候就是因为想的太多了，所以常常忘了用感官去体会生活给我们带来的涟漪与灵感。
“You don’t have to understand life, you just need to live it.”
And yes, there needs to be a balance here too.
