quietdesperation

To make a long story short, in the summer of 1922 a story was concocted in a paris newspaper. The point waswhat would people do if they knew the world was going to end on a date in the not too distant future. A letter in response was written by marcel proust:

I think that life would suddenly seem wonderful to us if we were threatened to die as you say. Just think how many projects, travels, love affairs, studies, it our life hides from us, made invisible by our laziness which, certain of a future, delays them incessantly. But let all this threaten to become impossible forever, how beautiful it would become again! Ah, if only the cataclysm doesnt happen this time, we wont miss visiting the new galleries of the louvre, throwing ourselves at the feet of miss x, making a trip to India. The cataclysm doesnt happen, we dont do any of it, because we find ourselves back in the heart of normal life, where negligence deadens desire. And yet we shouldnt have needed the cataclysm to love life today. It would have been enough to think that we are humans, and that death may come this evening.


i think that many of us unknowingly live by the motto "to the grave safely!"