Only this morning I’d been furious, and now I was calm and happy.
I was gradually getting used to feeling the range of available human emotions,
their intensity, the rapidity with which they could change.
Until now, anytime that emotions, feelings, had threatened to unsettle me, I’d drink them down fast, drown them.
That had allowed me to exist, but I was starting to understand that I needed, wanted, something more than that now.
I took the rubbish downstairs and when I came back into the flat, I noticed that it smelled lemony.
It was a pleasure to enter. I didn’t normally notice my surroundings, I realized.
It was like my walk to Maria Temple’s office this morning:
when you took a moment to see what was around you, noticed all the little things, it made you feel... lighter.
Perhaps, if you had friends or a family, they might help you to notice things more often. They might even point them out to you.
I turned off the radio and sat in silence on the sofa, drinking another cup of tea.
All I could hear was the breeze whistling softly through the open window and two men laughing in the street below.
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