In 2001, Wayson Choy (the Author of this book) suffered a combined asthma-heart attack. This book is the detailed account of what he went through, from the ICU to his recovery. Mr Choy's writing is very clean and I like his twist of humor from time to time, and some you may call it "dark humor" (and it's a typical Chinese way of humor). He also wrote a few other famous books, such as The Jade Peony and Paper Shadows, which I found them through the local library and now reading them.
Mr Choy recorded his feeling in writing this book that may echo in some of your minds "I thought this memoir of living and almost dying would be complex, difficult, that because I am not religious in any traditional sense, my memoir would be full of insecurities and dark perplexities. Instead, after much incubation and wondering, the storyteller in me took over: in story, I found meaning I came to embrace the notion that there is joy and purpose in living one's life as everyday adventure, one enlightened moment after another." ... ... There is joy and purpose in living one's life as everyday adventure, one enlightened moment after another!
In the under-cover of the book, Joseph Conrad (A Personal Record) is quoted "Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life." You agree?
Imaginaiton also breeds hope. And with positive and intelligent, yet realistic imaginaiton, breeds living life to the fullest.
ReplyDeleteDearest Matthew, thank you for the motivaiton and enlightening.