After eons, I have finally been bringing reading and sanity back into my life for a while. Hopefully I will keep reading and find time to read. I’ve read Chasing Harry Winston by Lauren Weisberger, this book and now am reading Morality Tale by Slyvia Brownrigg which I have started on and left off for too long that I have to re-start reading it again. So if anyone has good books to recommend or lend me, please support me in my reading mission and lend them to me. Much much welcomed!
Haruki Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.. basically is an autobiography of Murakami by himself with anecdotes on running. Some quotes I like and resonate to:
To deal with something unhealthy, a person needs to be as healthy as possible. That’s my motto. In other words, an unhealthy soul requires a healthy body. This might sound paradoxical, but it’s something I’ve felt very keenly ever since I became a professional writer. The healthy and the unhealthy are not necessarily at opposite ends of the spectrum. They don’t stand in opposition to each other, but rather complement each other, and in some cases even band together.
I need to exercise! Because I have an unhealthy mind and unhealthy body too..
Another excerpt:
I’m struck by how, except when you’re young, you really need to prioritize in life, figuring out in what order you should divide up your time and energy. If you don’t get that sort of system set up by a certain age, you’ll lack focus and your life will be out of balance. I placed the highest priority on the sort of life that lets me focus on writing, not associating with all the people around me. I felt that the indispensable relationship I should build in my life was not with a specific person, but with an unspecified number of readers.
My opinion hasn’t changed over the years. I can’t see my readers’ faces, so in a sense it’s a conceptual type of human relationship, but I’ve consistently considered this invisible, conceptual relationship to be the most important thing in my life.
In other words, you can’t please everybody.
Prioritize, prioritize!
