When Breath Becomes Air was not my favorite but right now, it is one of in the list. Why? Because as i have finished read the whole pages, it taught me so much lessons. Such as about life, love, family, works, co-workers, and others that i cannot mention one by one.
The first time i knew about the book was when i unintentionally click random picture in explore of instagram and when i open it, it was from gitasav (one of insta celeb) and i went thru to the comments and someone said it was good and sad at the same time, then i screenshoot it and made it into my list to buy.
And someday, when i came into the bookstore, i was looking for Murakami's because dad's in town lol but ended up i didn't because it was expensive rather than in another store so i decided to buy another book and again, i intentionally found this!!! undoubtably, i picked it with love hahah and seek for other books and got into the cashier.
I unpacked it, and ripped the plastic to uncover it and started to read it.
My impression about the book was,
"Oh, this book, has an easy words to understand."
"Where's the part when he suffered the cancer?."
But then, i was wrong. The words of the book was filled with medical's verbality that i can not understand and it made me feels like i was a medical student for a moment lol.
This book, divided into two parts. the first part told about the story of paul when he's still young, still study for his residency, how he succeed his medical journey, how he was in the top of them.
and, the second part told about story of paul when he suffered and fighting to his illness, even at the moment he ever had his good condition back, and even he was in OR operating patient, when he and his wife decided to have child, well, his wife Lucy was work in medical career too as anesthetist.
The story of this book was very emotional, when you have to sacrifice everything you've been built in the first place to the future but then, there was no future at all. About what's important thing to makes you hold out. About leaving our dearest people because you knew you didn't have much time.
Frankly, this book made me in tears at some part. I don't know if you guys (to people that have been read it or soon will be) would in tears too lol because i am such melancholic person.
I also have a few of my favorites words that i quoted from this book:
"As my skilled increased, so too did my responsibility. Learning to judge whose lives could be saved, whose couldn't be, and whose shouldn't be required an unattainable prognostic ability."
"As a resident, my highest ideal wasn't saving lives--everyone dies eventually--but guiding a patient or family to an understanding of death or illness."
"Before operating on a patient's brain, i realized, i must first understand his mind, his identity, his values, what makes it reasonable to let that life end."
"In residency, there's saying: the days are long, but the years are short."
"The way forward would seem obvious, if only i knew how many months or years i had left. Tell me three months, I'd spend time with family. Tell me one year, I'd write a book. Give me ten years, I'd get back to treating diseases. The truth that you live one day at a time didn't help: What was i supposed to do with that day?"
What's yours?
XoXo-F
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