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4.4 AVERAGE
4.4 AVERAGE
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A really beautiful reflection on the meaning of an individual’s life.
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well damn.
maybe my first autobigraphy?
even after i know that paul is dead, it still hurts so much when it’s stated clearly in the book that he is dead. like the very moment of it. i cried so much that my head hurts.
maybe bcs we are told the process of dying itself by paul himself. the acceptance at first, fully acceptance, than the hope, then the acceptance again that, shit, this would not work, wouldn’t it? and maybe because paul saw it just the way dying is just dying. like no exaggerating and no minimazing. he was like okay, im going to die, how do i maximize and utilitize myself as a person, as a human, as a doctor, as a husband, as myself?
as a reader, it still hurts nonetheless
maybe my first autobigraphy?
even after i know that paul is dead, it still hurts so much when it’s stated clearly in the book that he is dead. like the very moment of it. i cried so much that my head hurts.
maybe bcs we are told the process of dying itself by paul himself. the acceptance at first, fully acceptance, than the hope, then the acceptance again that, shit, this would not work, wouldn’t it? and maybe because paul saw it just the way dying is just dying. like no exaggerating and no minimazing. he was like okay, im going to die, how do i maximize and utilitize myself as a person, as a human, as a doctor, as a husband, as myself?
as a reader, it still hurts nonetheless
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informative
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A sad book, but a proud book too. Which is what I think Paul Kalanithi intended.
"Lucy and I both felt that life wasn't about avoiding suffering. Years ago, it had occurred to me that Darwin and Nietzsche agreed on one thing: the defining characteristic of the organism is striving. Describing life otherwise was like painting a tiger without stripes."
And, a Mengzi quote I felt appropriately related: "天將降大任於斯人也，必先苦其心志，勞其筋骨，餓其體膚，空乏其身，行拂亂其所為，所以動心忍性，增益其所不能." --> "So it is that whenever Heaven invests a person with great responsibilities, it first tries his resolve, exhausts his muscles and bones, starves his body, leaves him destitute, and confound his every endeavor."
"Lucy and I both felt that life wasn't about avoiding suffering. Years ago, it had occurred to me that Darwin and Nietzsche agreed on one thing: the defining characteristic of the organism is striving. Describing life otherwise was like painting a tiger without stripes."
And, a Mengzi quote I felt appropriately related: "天將降大任於斯人也，必先苦其心志，勞其筋骨，餓其體膚，空乏其身，行拂亂其所為，所以動心忍性，增益其所不能." --> "So it is that whenever Heaven invests a person with great responsibilities, it first tries his resolve, exhausts his muscles and bones, starves his body, leaves him destitute, and confound his every endeavor."
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
sad
medium-paced