When Breath Becomes Air

by Paul Kalanithi

“Things are going to be okay,” I said. “It’s just residency.”

Typical doctor response

If the unexamined life was not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining?

Woah

There is a moment, a cusp, when the sum of gathered experience is worn down by the details of living. We are never so wise as when we live in this moment.