Healing the Mind Series, Recommended by Adult Picture Books, "What Kind of Life Have You Wanted"
The content of the book is very simple, from 0 to 100 years old, one year old with a picture, one picture with one sentence. The whole book is less than 3,000 words, and the first time you can't see it, you can turn it over in 10 minutes. After flipping through it a second time, I decided to put it away as a pillow book.
The sentences that impressed me the most in the book were:
1.5 years old: Mom will come back after she leaves, you know this truth, this is trust.
12 years old: In many ways, your parents are far inferior to you.
19: It's just that you hate yourself sometimes, can a person change themselves?
20: Do you remember what it was like when you were 15? Life 5 years ago was like a lifetime for you.
21: You grew up in this room and now it looks so narrow.
29: One thing you haven't learned yet: Stay home alone on Saturday night, please don't be hurt.
31 years old: The contrast between different states can make people feel happy
36 years old: The wish has been fulfilled, but the reality is far from what you imagined.
43 years old: Learned to live for yourself.
Age 45: Do you like the way you are now?
51 years old: You accept the appearance of your parents.
53 years old: It doesn't matter, you've learned to cherish the little beauty in life.
56 years old: You have become accustomed to the world and no longer even look up at the moon in the sky.
71 years old: There are always a few years when you think everything is difficult.
Age 72: Another few years, you think things are going well.
80 years old: At this moment, you feel that your life is limited, so you cherish every minute and second of the present even more.
81 years old: If your age is not measured by the years that have passed, but by the time you have enjoyed?
Every year at the age of 94, when you put empty blackberry bottles back in the basement, you ask yourself: Who knows if I can still use these bottles?
Age 95: But every time you fill these bottles with blackberry sauce again.
Age 97: People ask you all sorts of questions, like what does life teach you?
Author Heiko Faller, an editor of the German magazine Time magazine, was inspired one day when she saw her adorable niece who had just been born: from 0 to 100 years old, to write a unique book. So she invited the award-winning illustrator Valerio Vidari to co-create, and she went to visit various people of different ages, social statuses, and nationalities, asking them only one question: "What has life taught you?" Finally, the answers collected, in order of age, in the second person, will be written in such a large prose poem, so that the niece knows the life she is about to face.
After reading:
This is a book that does not require long reading, but just looking at the illustrations can calm your mood, to feel life, to experience life. What kind of life have you thought about? There is no standard answer in the book. No matter what stage of life you go to, you must learn to cherish the little beauty of life. Even if you're used to the world, don't forget to look up at the moon in the sky.
My favorite illustrations are the following pictures
