Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Ordinary Life

I usually skim through the headlines and then focus on reading articles, editorials, books, reviews.

This particular article struck a chord somewhere. Quoting from the article -

"Life itself isn’t sensible, I say. No one can say with ultimate authority what will happen — with cancer, with a job that appears shaky, with all reversed fortunes — so you may as well seize all glimmers that appear."

and at the end
"One thing I don’t ever think to say: When I was told I had a year or two, I didn’t want anything one might expect: no blow-out trip to the Galápagos, no perfect meal at Alain Ducasse, no defiant red Maserati. All I wanted was ordinary life back, for ordinary life, it became utterly clear, is more valuable than anything else."

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