Fasfem reads : The Book of Delights

So what if you decided to silence negative Nancy in your head and created this every day ritual : note one thing that made you delighted every day for the remaining quarantine time!

Ross Gay kept this commitment to write a small essay about delight every day - almost - for a year, beginning from his birthday. Resulted this marvelous book of small essays that make my every quarantine day…

Here is an extract from the ‘Joy Is Such a Human Madness’ essay, my favorite so far :

I dreamed a few years back that I was in a supermarket checking out when I had the stark and luminous and devastating realization—in that clear way, not that oh yeah way—that my life would end. I wept in line watching people go by with their carts, watching the cashier move items over the scanner, feeling such an absolute love for this life. And the mundane fact of buying groceries with other people whom I do not know, like all the banalities, would be no more so soon, or now. Good as now.

Feels like striking a chord right now, doesn’t it?