Veronika Decides to Die - インターネットデパート

What is important is not to force to do but to evoke desire to do. ★★★★★

A Slovene woman Veronika, who was young and beautiful and seemed to live with no inconvenience, despaired of living and tried to die of overdose of pills, but narrowly escaped death and was sent to a mental hospital. Doctors and nurses who normally encourage and persuade their spiritless patients to have an eagerness for life did not do that but instead informed her mercilessly that she could not live more than a week. The information, however, unwittingly and gradually evoked desire for life in her. The core of the author's thought appears to me that people never learn anything by being told, they have to find themselves. I think this novel is a kind of advanced version of Aesop's "The North Wind and the Sun".

Do not be disappointed with your life. ★★★★★

When you read "Veronica Decides to Die", you may also suffer, or you may have as she does. Peace sometimes makes you suffer because it is often misunderstood as a boring routine. However, every breath we breathe, every words we say, every thought we think of, every scene we see, and everything around us has been miracle since we were born. This book will tell you that we have ever suffered or some of us are still suffering mentally but we are born not to suffer from anything but enjoy miracles.

Veronica Decides to Die （ﾍﾞﾛﾆｶは死ぬことにした） ★★★★★

タイトルに目を引かれ、この本を買いました。背表紙に、ベロニカは、美人で異性にもてると描写されていたので、そんな人でも死にたくなるのかと思いました。だらだらと”普通”の生活を送っていたベロニカが、目標をもち、自由に生きようという心が芽生えるまでをドラマチックに語っているので、本を閉じることが出来ませんでした。そして、ベロニカと同じように心の自由がなかった私も、この本を読んだ後、私だって自由なんだと心を切り替えることができました。ストレスが溜まって、自由がない！と思うときに読むと、心が救われると思います。

一冊のなかに繰り広げられるいくつもの人生 ★★★★☆