Grief is difficult to read but it is more difficult to write it. The sense of a loss can't be really written irrespective of a writer's proficiency. What you write can't get closer to what you feel about the loss but this one is written beautifully.
A loss which brings the existential question, and make you question your own thoughts and beliefs. That is a kind of loss for the lifetime which goes with life.
Solace can't be found, it just has to be created.
Peace
What does a war do to anyone who has tolerated it and came out with the life, and nothing else?
This is a memoir of Korean war and the story of a woman told by her own daughter. The woman who survived, thrived, and grew old in US and lived a secluded life suffering with schizophrenia.
There are a lot of symbols of war in the whole narrative but the strongest of them all is food. Food is one of the most basic needs of survival, and most of the war accounts are full of hunger. This one doesn't have a lot of hunger but you can see the signs of war in the food. A woman who doesn't talk much about the war she has seen at a very young age didn't forget the food. There were phases of self hunger but eventually it was the food that brought her out.
Even if one has never faced war, hunger, poverty or any kind of deprivation, it is not difficult to connect with the people who did. War takes the human out of humanity but it can't survive forever but it does leave one with the signs of war.
Peace
If the exercise is very crucial to stay healthy, why people need to be motivated to do physical activities? And if workout is the answer to a lot of problems why the healthy people end up getting all those bad knees, back, and even early death?
These questions always challenge the effect of exercise on the well being of humans. In this book the author tries to answer some of these questions from an evolutionary point of view, and also uses some of the latest studies of exercising.
It does try to answer a lot of questions, and succeeds with many of them with the logical sounding arguments, and statistics. However, the idea of explaining everything from an evolutionary point is a lot hypothesis led scenarios which try to explain things which doesn't have a lot of influence from evolution. But that point apart this is definitely worth reading if you're ever exercised with the idea of exercise.
In a nutshell, we need exercise to keep a lot of our bodily activities going and this book tries to educate you to see and understand what you want and where you're pushing too much. Plus there is a no one formula for how much exercise we need, we just need to go what our body feels like and enjoys. Stop buying workout from a marketed package and educate yourself about what you want to achieve.
Love
