Hey say it’s possible to pinpoint happiness (H) through a formula:
H = P + (5xE) + (3xS)
where P is the personal characteristics as the vision of life, resilience and adaptability; E is the existential needs such as health, friends, money; while S denotes the superior character needs such as self-esteem and sense of humor, qualities that come into play when the basic needs seem to be scarce.
All this could be worth in a tidy world where reality proceeds without contingencies, at the rhythm that everyone considers suitable for himself, but someone said that life “is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans” and it is still right.
Louisa Clark knows that, she failed to change his mind at Will Traynor, steadfast in his belief of wanting to end his life by assisted suicide.
It’s hard to know that sometimes love is not enough.
In “After you”, by Jojo Moyes we find Louisa trying to survive to Will without success to resume where everything stopped with his death. He himself ask her in a final letter: “For some time you feel uncomfortable in your new world. There will always feel bewildered when you are thrown from your reassuring corner … There is a hunger in you, Clark. There is audacity. You’ve just buried, as it does most people. Live well. Simply live. “.
But it’s difficult for her to see life ahead of her as a valuable opportunity; to urge and encourage there are her parents, her sister, the Traynor, the support group but no one seems to understand what she’s feeling. Nothing is enough without him.
Fortunately life goes on and on her way Lou meets new people that will be the bridge between what was there before and there will be after Will.
They will be able to heal the wound?
Will they let her accept without guilt that scar that forever tells her that there had been a Louisa with Will and she may still exist after him?
Dear readers, “wear” Lou’s eyes and looks with hope to a world without Will.
Time of the reading: few hours for a couple of evenings
Photography: Sara Cartelli.
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