The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby

Book Type: Paperback
Published: 07 May 2008
Publisher: HarperPerennial
RRP:£6.99

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Review:
The enthusiasm for life that Jean-Dominique Bauby demonstrated in the whole book was amazing. And it was not for a matter of faiths or beliefs, but for a simple and pure love of life and everything that's part of it. Like the way he makes up recipes and tastes in his mind, or he listen to soft voices in his head that he calls butterflies. And even the way he classifies and changes the whole world around him, making it more exciting and new even if at the same time he is perfectly aware of his situation and of the way this makes his relatives and friends feel. He perfectly knows that they don't know anything about what's still inside this man that they see, who is so different from the one they knew before. He knows that his kids treat him different, and that everybody keeps going on with their lives without him, and then visits and tries to hide the tears. And this awareness which usually would make anyone fall into an absolute despair became for him a pretext to appreciate what he had, which is his mind, and his memories. It's a book that I was expecting would have made me very sad (which it did, in those moments when he was in a bad and pessimistic mood), but for the most part it just made me feel lucky and special to be able to appreciate all this a thousand times more. The fact that makes it so unique is that it links something so tragic like an accident that leaves you almost completely paralized with being happy and living life fully, introducing the idea that, if something doesn't go exactly like you want or if you're unhappy, it might be because of you waiting too long to follow your wishes and then not being able to grasp all the chances we get.To be able to be happy just for the fact that I can walk and laugh and talk to people, and watch and hear, and realize how beautiful being alive is. It made me want to go out and do something, live it fully and take any possible chance I can, without missing out on anything.