When Breathe Becomes Air- A Review
“I began to realize that coming in such close contact with my own mortality had changed both nothing and everything. Before my cancer was diagnosed, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when. After the diagnosis, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when. But now I knew it acutely. The problem wasn’t really a scientific one. The fact of death is unsettling. Yet there is no other way to live.” ― Paul Kalanithi , When Breath Becomes Air Pondering and reflecting on this book, a deep sense of void grips your heart. It feels how fragile and brittle life is. Life knows exactly where to knock us down and when to lift us up. Life slaps us right in the face when we have climbed to the zenith of our prosperous moments. Nothing can be said about how quick is the passing of time and how the strikes of calamities can fall anywhere, anyhow and anytime. Paul beautifully lives up to every details of his excruciating pain yet he never tries...