The Comfort Book
Baby
Imagine yourself as a baby. You would look at that baby and think they lacked nothing. That baby came complete. Their value was innate from their first breath. Their value did not depend on external things like wealth or appearance or politics or popularity. It was the infinite value of a human life. And that value stays with us, even as it becomes easier to forget it. We stay precisely as alive and precisely as human as we were the day we were born. The only thing we need is to exist. And to hope. (p.5 [The Comfort Book] by Matt Haig)
일상의 스트레스로 힘들 때 그리고 근심과 불안으로 지친 심신(心身)에 위로와 위안(consolation)이 필요할 때 ‘명상’하듯 한 장씩 읽으면 -개인적 생각이지만- 마음을 평정(平靜)시키는 데 좀 도움이 될만한 책 한 권을 올려둔다.
지난번 다른 글에서도 언급했던 작가 Matt Haig의 책, 『The Comfort Book』인데 paperback 버전으로 들고 다니며 읽기에도 좋고 서술하고 있는 문체(文體)도 비교적 그리 어렵지 않은 편인 것 같다.
Toast
Continually looking for the meaning of life is like looking for the meaning of toast. It is sometime s better just to eat the toast.(p.46[The Comfort Book] by Matt Haig)
