“I don’t know what to do. I only know that it’s taken me years to understand that life was pushing me in a direction I didn’t want to go in.” –Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to DieWhat makes this book very interesting and effectual is that it tackles mainly about the purpose of a person, his/her purpose and his/her way of dealing with death.
Death. Why death?
Life itself compensates with death. People are living with life and so does with death. All of us know right from the very start and right from the very moment when we had our understanding about the natural phenomenon that we were born and we will soon be dead.
Nevertheless, there are still many people from every corner of the earth who cannot accept this “five-letter-words”.
“When will these people be able to comprehend that nobody lives forever?”
Nobody is immortal aside from God. And nobody is allowed to assume that way.
“An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.” –Paolo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
Veronika is not one of this populace. She acknowledged death and even reached out for it. She existed yet certainly was not living. She found it hard to live with life’s necessities.
She was thinking and acting as though “life should not have been given to her.” Certainly, she was not really pleased with her life.
“The will was the main target of Bitterness (or Vitriol, as Dr. Igor preferred to call it). The people attacked by this malaise began to lose all desire, and within a few years, they became unable to leave their world, where they had spent enormous reserves of energy constructing high walls in order to make reality what they wanted it to be.” -Veronika
“A miracle happened: another day of life.”-Veronika Decides to Die
But as moment went on, with every bit and bit of the story, she realized when she was dying how important life is. She regretted overdosing herself with sleeping pills, which made her ill, the moment she had her wish: to die.
Thus, I can say that life is so precious. Life is never a thing that should be taken for granted but it should be conserved and not be used for self-interest. We all have our goals and purpose. God never created anyone of us without a purpose and a subject to live by. We are living and existing at the same time. Both go hand in hand. And with every moment of our life lies a deep meaning and a question: Why am I here?
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