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A review by saarahnina
Life Is Short And So Is This Book by Peter Atkins
5.0
A Must-read
This book is a helpful guide to dealing with life, even in the worst of times. We all hit a wall at some point in our lives, the wall could be your partner leaving you. And we forget that this wall was once supportive. We fail to recognise this, and as a result we fail to move on. The wall disappears and we just stand there, staring, in denial. I've faced a dozen different walls, and life will keep building them up, but the reality is: that we need to keep on moving, find another route.
Like the author, I am no optimist- with life the way it is, I have a hard time believing anyone can be-therefore this book resonated well with me. A book which condenses all the wisdom this writer has accumulated during the course of his life. And of course there are so many questions left unanswered, or subjects unmentioned, but this is a short book after all!
Indeed, as you can imagine, there were aspects I disagreed with: it's all well and good to laugh when you make a mistake, but how does one laugh when faced with an insurmountable issue? And I disagreed with his philosophy- some walls are hard to accept, but can't be ignored. The wall analogy was my own, but the philosophy may be attributed to him.
Whilst it doesn't really inspire you to transform your life, it does give you some words of encouragement, and in some ways it resembled the words in my head.
This book is a helpful guide to dealing with life, even in the worst of times. We all hit a wall at some point in our lives, the wall could be your partner leaving you. And we forget that this wall was once supportive. We fail to recognise this, and as a result we fail to move on. The wall disappears and we just stand there, staring, in denial. I've faced a dozen different walls, and life will keep building them up, but the reality is: that we need to keep on moving, find another route.
Like the author, I am no optimist- with life the way it is, I have a hard time believing anyone can be-therefore this book resonated well with me. A book which condenses all the wisdom this writer has accumulated during the course of his life. And of course there are so many questions left unanswered, or subjects unmentioned, but this is a short book after all!
Indeed, as you can imagine, there were aspects I disagreed with: it's all well and good to laugh when you make a mistake, but how does one laugh when faced with an insurmountable issue? And I disagreed with his philosophy- some walls are hard to accept, but can't be ignored. The wall analogy was my own, but the philosophy may be attributed to him.
Whilst it doesn't really inspire you to transform your life, it does give you some words of encouragement, and in some ways it resembled the words in my head.