The Life Impossible

by Matt Haig

Someone once told me the way to die happy is to die complete. To live like you eat a delicious meal. To devour and enjoy every course so that when you have finished you are full, and enjoyed every mouthful, but aren’t too sad there is no more.

anhedonia

‘Do you know how they tell if an emerald is authentic?’ he asked. ‘The imperfections,’ I said. ‘Yes. Exactly. That’s what the woman said in the jeweller’s. It is the opposite of other jewels. With an emerald, the more inclusions, the more cracks and defects, the more beautiful it can be. An authentic emerald is beautiful for its flaws. They call it perfect imperfection. Only a fake emerald can be conventionally perfect.’

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