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A review by tormerritt
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brené Brown
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
I don't think a quote from a book has hit me as hard as this one has:
There are too many people in the world today who decide to live dissapointed rather than risk the feeling of disappointment. This can take shape of numbing, foreboding joy, being cynical, or critical, or just never really engaging. Sometimes when I am in one of those moods where I just want to pull the covers over my head and stay in bed, (and trust me, there were many of those days during quarantine) I promised myself that I am going to get less excited about things so I feel less dissapointed.
Then, I always remember this interview with a man early on in my research. He was in his sixties and I will never forget how he looked at me when he said:
"I used to think the best way to go through life was to expect the worst. That way if it happened you were prepared and if it didn't happen, you were pleasantly surprised. But I was in a car accident with my wife and she was killed. Needless to say, expecting the worst didn't prepare me at all, and worse... I still grieve for all of those wonderful moments we shared and that I didn't fully enjoy. My commitment to her is to fully enjoy every moment now. I just wish she was here now that I know how to do that." 🥺❤
- Brenè Brown (Atlas of the Heart)
#AtlasOfTheHeart #books #meaningfulconnections
There are too many people in the world today who decide to live dissapointed rather than risk the feeling of disappointment. This can take shape of numbing, foreboding joy, being cynical, or critical, or just never really engaging. Sometimes when I am in one of those moods where I just want to pull the covers over my head and stay in bed, (and trust me, there were many of those days during quarantine) I promised myself that I am going to get less excited about things so I feel less dissapointed.
Then, I always remember this interview with a man early on in my research. He was in his sixties and I will never forget how he looked at me when he said:
"I used to think the best way to go through life was to expect the worst. That way if it happened you were prepared and if it didn't happen, you were pleasantly surprised. But I was in a car accident with my wife and she was killed. Needless to say, expecting the worst didn't prepare me at all, and worse... I still grieve for all of those wonderful moments we shared and that I didn't fully enjoy. My commitment to her is to fully enjoy every moment now. I just wish she was here now that I know how to do that." 🥺❤
- Brenè Brown (Atlas of the Heart)
#AtlasOfTheHeart #books #meaningfulconnections