In practice
When do you read this book?
Some people are quiet for a moment every morning before the day begins. Who say something at the table before they start eating. Who look back on their day in the evening. And who keep one day a week free to think about what really matters.
This book doesn't require any of that. But there is something in it that works.
If you read this book in one go, it's a nice book. If you read a story every now and then, it becomes something else.
Choose for yourself
Four moments
On a fixed evening. Sunday, for instance, when the week has just ended and the new one hasn't started yet. One chapter. No more.
At the table. Not the whole chapter — just one question, out loud. And everyone answers. The grown-ups too. Especially the grown-ups.
Right before you fall asleep. No chapter. Just one question: what did you almost not notice today? Sometimes it's something small that was beautiful. Sometimes it's someone who did something for you without you realising. Sometimes it's nothing. And then it's nothing.
Or precisely not at a fixed moment. When something has happened. You were jealous. You walked on when you could have stopped. Then go and find the chapter that's about that.
You're allowed to read the same chapter again a year from now. Your answer will probably be different. That's fine. That's exactly what a mirror is for.
