(TK)I hope I will live long enough that she has some memory of me
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I hope I will live long enough that she has some memory of me ~ When breath becomes air.
I have read Paul Kalanithi’s classic recently and the one sentence that touched me the most is that the author who is on his death bed, prays that he wants to just live long enough to create a memory of him to his daughter. No one apart from the father can utter these words. These words imply his love and willingness to fight out deadly cancer… not to earn, not to live a life he dreamt of… not to travel the world… not to eat to…