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We all know what to do, we all do it differently
“In an Instant” tells a story about how people act in a deadly accident and the life that ensues for each individual.
It’s a cliched theme but this book catches me in two points. One is that it spends more time on the aftermath than right in the accident. Truth be told, the post-crisis life is not less dramatic at all as it’s where the transformations are completed. The other is that it watches each person inches away from the eyes of one of the demises. It’s a life lover, an unpopular, unapologetic girl. She dies at the first second of the RV accident, then she goes everywhere as she wants in no time, including people’s hearts, watching, listening, mourning, encouraging, cursing, yelling, while affecting nothing, nobody but herself. Her superpower of mobility is as incredible as her inability to help people on earth because, for them, she is a pre-existence.
It hits me that when a disaster happens, we all know what to do, we all do it differently. What we know is incredibly uniform, what we do is millions of miles off.
We have two selves — Okay another cliche. The external one is dressed in orthodox teachings. They might look different among people, we call it personality. But at the core, they are all the same, like the clothes. The inner one is a sleeping angel or demon. It might sleep throughout the whole life because we mostly live a…
