The Last Chapter:  And Then You Die

The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A Fuck

Part 1 Q&A

Have you thought about death or dying? How did you feel when you were thinking about them?

Yes, but the death didn't make me feel really scared because I am young and just studying in the school. Nonetheless, when I think about my parents will die at a certain time I feel upset and nervous.

How knowing “then you die” would affect the way we live? What is the sunny side of death?

I gave a fuck about something more important than my insecurities and my baggage.Oddly, it was someone else’s death that gave me permission to finally live. And perhaps the worst moment of my life was also the most transformational. Confronting the reality of our own mortality is important because it obliterates all the crappy, fragile, superficial values in life.

Did you have a transformational moment growing up? Something you would consider a wake-up call?

Well, I guess I don't have such an experience, or I cannot remember it.

Part 2 My Ideas

在死亡面前什么事情都是狭小的。我们知道我有一天会死去,但这不妨碍我们去追求自己的事业,做喜欢的事,爱上别人,也因为终究会死去,抛开琐碎的,肤浅的事情,我们才更加珍惜我们所拥有的。很多年轻人对生死没什么概念,也感受不到害怕死去的感觉,觉得离死亡还有很遥远。但如果看透生死,则会成熟面对现实,有着同龄人没有的沉稳,不浮躁。

Part 3 Expression

Still not putting two-and-two together, I hurried down to the shoreline, gnawing on my sandwich, curious as to what everyone was looking at.

gnaw: to keep biting something hard

gnaw (away) at somebody/something : to make someone feel worried or frightened, over a period of time

类似的词:bite, chew

e.g. Gnawed and fingerless, the arm thrashed on the floor, wriggling toward him.            ----冰与火之歌

The other faculty loathed him. Less than a year later, he was fired again.

loath: formal to be unwilling to do something

类似的词:reluctant

e.g. They looked upon the creature with a loathing undisguised

depressing anxiety—creeps back into our mind.

creep:

V: 1. to move in a quiet, careful way, especially to avoid attracting attention

类似的词:tiptoe

n: 2. someone who you dislike extremely

  3. give somebody the creeps if a person or place gives you the creeps, they make you feel nervous and a little frightened, especially because they are strange:

  e.g. That house gives me the creeps.

I step across the rocks toward the blue, allowing its vastness to engulf my field of vision.

engulf: Is a verb that means being completely surrounded, soaked, or covered. Fire, snow, smoke, flood waters, or even violence are a few things that could engulf you.

还有一个意思是“狼吞虎咽”

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