Weekly Share: Karl Ove Knausgård, What Makes Life Worth Living?
“What makes life worth living?
No child asks itself that question. To children life is self-evident. Life goes without saying: whether it is good or bad makes no difference. This is because children don’t see the world, don’t observe the world, don’t contemplate the world, but are so deeply immersed in the world that they don’t distinguish between it and their own selves. Not until that happens, until a distance appears between what they are and what the world is, does the question arise: what makes life worth living?”
This is a quote from the Norwegian author's letter to his unborn baby, in which he uses the minutiae of everyday life to showcase that we are part of a greater, beautiful whole. The full letter is an excerpt from the book “Autumn”.
How can you see the world through the eyes of a child this weekend?
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