Maybe we could go on that vacation we’ve been dreaming about for a long time or get that good night’s sleep we’ve been craving for the last few weeks. Think about your answer to the question “Who are you?” Aren’t we answering with our job title any time we are asked that question? The reason most often being that we spend a lot of time working, we forget how else we can be defined. – We are living in a world today that work is defining who we are. But when we are sipping it, we give time to our organs, whether internal or external, to understand what that drink really is. – When we are gulping through any drink, we are not enjoying what that drink has to offer, it is as if we are in a hurry to be done with the glass. There is a section in the book that lists 40 reasons to stay alive and I wanted to share those with the readers of my blog along with some comments of my own (my comments start after the dashes). anxiety and depression, I enjoyed every bit of it, especially because it comes from someone who has had a first-hand experience of how tough life can get.

Although I wish he would have talked more about his journey of recovery from the elephant in the room, i.e. Having heard a lot about a book by Matt Haig, I started reading “ Reasons to Stay Alive.” It is not a long read (in fact less than 200 pages on the version available through my city’s library). As you can see, there are a lot of sides to life and the way to experience them is to stay alive. It can give you a reason to cry some time, but it can also make you laugh.

It can put you in pain for some time and make you feel happy some other time.

Reasons to stay alive pages