In this time, right now, that is an enormous thing

That message is simple: 

When you come to one of the many moments in life where you must give an account of yourself, 
provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, 
do not, I pray, discount that you filled a dying man’s days with a sated joy, a joy unknown to me in all my prior years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more, but rests, satisfied. 
In this time, right now, that is an enormous thing.

                                                - Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

폴 칼라니티 <바람이 숨결될 때>라는 책의 마지막 글귀 입니다. 

“인생의 많은 순간 중, 

나에 대해 이야기 해야 할 때가 오겠죠. 

그때 스스로 기뻐하기를... 

평온히 만족하기를... 

지금 이순간이 실로 대단한 것을.”

2017.12.23