Pearls of wisdom!

'"How long have you been together?"'  "'Since I was nineteen."'  "Julia thought about the question for a long time finally asking: " '"How do you do it?"' "Anna-Lena replied without thinking at all:" "'You love each other until you can't live without each other. And even if you stop loving each other for a little while, you cant...you can't live without each other.'"   P.  175

       This is one of the little pearls of wisdom in his delightful, thoughtful, funny, novel Anxious People, by Fredrik Backman. Like his previous novel, A Man Called Ove, People is peopled with delightful characters so true to life I found myself thinking "I know him/her!"  Perhaps this is particularly true if one has Scandinavian heritage. 

       Long marriages are filled with ups and downs. To Joanne I was fond of saying "40 years of married bliss, not bad out of 45." 😀  The good days far outnumbered the bad, but, there were days which were anything but blissful. Even some of those less blissful days provide meaningful memories now. Why? Because they were markers of engagement indicating a deep level of connection.

     People is a great book for an anxious time, like now in a pandemic.

Takk for alt,

Al