Being Human
March
12
“Now that mine is almost over, I can say that the one thing that struck me most about life is the capacity for change. One day you’re a person and the next day they tell you you’re a dog. At first it’s hard to bear, but after a while you learn not to look at it as a loss. There’s even a moment when it becomes exhilarating to realize just how little needs to stay the same for you to continue the effort they call, for lack of a better word, being human.” -Leo Gursky
from The History of Love: A Novel (by Nicole Krauss)
P.S. If I can write a book, I’ll do it the way Nicole Krauss wrote The History of Love. And then I’ll never write again.
“how little needs to stay the same for you to continue the effort they call, for lack of a better word, being human”
there are so much discussion as to what it means to be human. intellect, emotion, the drama? and we, the humans that we are, always search for what it means to be human when sometimes it is effortless to be one.
by the way, nice quote.