Foam of the Daze..

.. or how to put things in perspective. For good.
From my experience, most people don't really appreciate what they have or who they are. We think of ourselves as either too skinny or too fat, too tall or too short etc. We rarely take the time to be thankful if we're healthy, happy or lucky enough to have a great family or friends. It's in the human nature to always strive for more - nowadays we just seem to forget the things that really matter and we're bathing in the pool of superficiality, minding our own shallow thoughts.
Sometimes it takes a huge slap in the face to get back to reality - and I don't wanna go into this 'cause we've all had ours. But other times, it takes less - a good chat with someone, a good movie or, in this case, a good book.
That's right, I managed to put things in perspective after reading what can be considered, in my opinion, one of the best book ever written.

As you might've figured out, I'm talking about Boris Vian's "Foam of the Daze". I'm not sure about the English title, the original title is "L’Écume des jours" - in English I've found it as "Foam of the Daze", "Froth of the Daydream" and there might be more, I haven't done my research properly.

Now I'm not gonna start telling you what's it about, you can easily find that on the interwebs. However, I strongly recommend reading it - no matter what sort of literature you're usually into, I'm sure this will make a great read.

What striked me mostly was its ability to make me feel sad. I read quite a lot of books but it doesn't often happen to get such feelings - I was depressed for like 1 week after finishing it and throughout the reading I was happy or sad or in pain along with the characters. It was the first book that made me shed a few tears - and I'm the type of person who didn't cry while watching "The Notebook" or whatever, so yea, it did come as a big surprise. 

It made me realize how lucky I am for being healthy (yes, I do have some issues but nothing that's gonna kill me), for having found the love of my life, for my great friends and my great family.  Maybe the most important lesson would be this: no matter what problems you have, just learn how to live with them. You know what they say, if they won't kill you, they'll definitely make you stronger.

- L.