Therein lies the paradox. Grief: the act of letting sorrow flow freely can be so overwhelming that many push it away in the hope it will just disappear, which of course it can’t, won’t, doesn’t. Not until it has run its course. The truth, which is rarely admitted in Western cultures, is that grief has a way of making you feel more alive. Not necessarily with a shit-eating grin, but more aware of being alive.
Quite interesting book. Cannot imagine placing oneself voluntarily in a hellhole like Sarajevo during the war there.
The trick, I had learned, was not holding on so tight to life that you became too scared to live. That was the same as living to die. No. The thing was to live like you had already died.
Doing things ‘differently’ to make your life better.
The point is simple: Life is what you make of it. There are rules and there are hacks. Create the game you want from life itself.
… you need to start by seeing life as a game. This has a lot of advantages. For example, games have concrete goals and simple (usually point-based) ways of measuring what’s working, whereas life does not.
Seeing life as a game allows you to see the map, to see where you’re going. … When you’re playing life instead of just living it, you try to see the map to know how you can organize yourself better. You look for shortcuts. You can look at other players and ask yourself, “How did they do that?”
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