A review by julitaf
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace

informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.0

this is kinda “man discovers empathy” but when i consider that it’s being delivered to a bunch of college graduates i stop scoffing and stand at attention because yeah, that’s as good a time as any for it. it’s genuinely sound advice and i wonder how i would have reacted to this speech had i read it as a fresh college grad myself. sometimes i find myself so cynical and embittered toward the world that when i read other people’s interpretation of said world, i struggle to define what i find truly pretentious and what i find worth internalizing despite that.