Recipes for Sad Women (Pushkin Collection) by Hector Abad

Author:Hector Abad [Abad, Hector]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781908968234
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Published: 2012-07-04T16:00:00+00:00

THERE ARE SORROWS that plunge you, irremediably, into the deepest despair. And the grief is so complete that you are yourself shocked at suffering so and being able to stand it. Only with him could you be able to endure so much unhappiness, but he’s the one who’s gone.

Has the one you loved died and can you bear it? Has the one who made you dream and smile died, and nevertheless you’re holding up? Before, when he was here, life was something else, you were someone else. Now you feel you’ve lost what made you feel, without realising it, joyful.

I cannot console you. I don’t have any recipe that will take pity on your sadness and ease it. On the contrary, I can tell you only to suffer at your leisure, to suffer all that you can, until you feel that so much sadness can no longer fit in one body. Don’t stint on tears, splash around in the pain with as much intensity as you did before in pleasure.

Because there is an inescapable rule, which, now that you hear it, will make you feel even sadder—with the passing of time you will no longer suffer so; you’ll want to suffer like before and you won’t be able to. It’s impossible to suffer and go on suffering for a long time. Even him, yes, him, you’ll eventually forget. Sorrow as you must and whatever happens—if after thirty-six months you are still suffering as you are now, you’ll not be suffering for him, you’ll be suffering for your guilt at not still suffering. Even if the love you felt was boundless, pain is miserly, it doesn’t last as long.

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