„THE MEANING OF LIFE” de The School of Life

Când eram tânără, eram tot timpul uimită de dialogul familiilor fictive din romanele pe care le citeam. Cât de bine știau să-și spună părerile și să-și explice acțiunile.
Deoarece în familia mea discuțiile nu erau ca în cărți, mult timp am crezut că este ceva greșit cu familia mea!!!
Din fericire pentru mine, am constatat că nu sunt singura. Recent, una din tinerele mele prietene, căreia îi place la fel de mult să citească, mi-a confirmat că și ea a crezut același lucru despre familia ei!!!

The School of Life, prin cartea lor „The meaning of life”, sunt cei care m-au lămurit de ce nu discutăm precum în cărți:

„The core, and perhaps unexpected, thing that books do for us is simplify.

Centrally, by telling a story, a book is radically simpler than lived experience.
The writer omits a huge amount of detail that could have been included.
In a story, the key events of a marriage unfold across a few dozen pages.
In life, they are spread over many years and interleaved with hundreds of business meetings, holidays, hours spent watching television, chats with one’s parents, shopping trips and dentist’s appointments.

Writers often do a lot of explaining along the way.
They frequently shed light on why a character is acting as they do; they reveal people’s secret thoughts and motives. The characters are much more clearly defined than the acquaintances we encounter. They and their actions provide us with simplified targets for our emotional lives.

We need simplification because our minds become checkmated by the complexity of our lives.

The writer, on rare but hugely significant occasions, puts into words feelings that have long eluded us; they know us better than we know ourselves. They seem to be narrating our own stories, but with more clarity than we could ever achieve.

The great writers build bridges to people we might otherwise have dismissed as unfeasibly strange or unsympathetic. By selection and emphasis, they reveal the important things we share. They show us where to look.

They also help us to feel.”

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„Newspapers and friends recommend books to us because they work for them, without thinking through why they might also works for us.”

Acesta este motivul pentru care, în blogul meu www.exlibrismeis.com, vorbesc despre ceea ce m-a impresionat pe mine în cărțile citite. Sau ceea ce am învățat eu din cărțile citite.
Deoarece cred că putem citi cu toții o aceeași carte, și să ne placă fiecăruia dintre noi din motive complet diferite.

„But when we come across the ideal book for us, we are presented with a clearer, more lucid, better-organised account of our own concerns and experiences.

For a time at least, our minds become less clouded and our hearts more accurately sensitive.

Through books’ benign simplification, we become a little better at being who we truly are.”

Kindle, 2021