Acute Myeloid Leukemia Experience

William Congdon - Our Lady of Nativity

There have been times when I thought that we do not wish the Sky but more often I find myself wondering whether, in the bottom of my heart, we never wanted anything. [...]

And is not it true that your most enduring friendships were born when you finally met another human being who had any inkling at least [...] of that something that would you like from birth and has always tried to find, see and hear, in the flow of other desires and in all other temporary silences between the strongest passions, night and day, year after year, from childhood to old age ? You've ever owned. All things that have ever deeply possessed your anima ne sono state solo degli indizi - barlumi allettanti, promesse mai completamente realizzate, echi che si spegnevano subito, appena vi arrivavano alle orecchie. Ma se questa cosa dovesse veramente manifestarsi – se mai dovesse sentirsi un’eco che non si spegnesse subito ma si espandesse nel suono stesso – voi lo sapreste. Al di là di ogni possibilità di dubbio direste: “ecco finalmente quella cosa per cui sono stato creato”.

Clive Staples Lewis, da Il problema della sofferenza