The Love Of Life

As I read Candide chapters 12-13, I notice a very touching word that meant a lot, “I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.” (Page 57) The saddest thing there can be is when you hear in the news or hear a story about suicide. How can someone not value the single thing most beautiful ever, life and living. By all means it is the very best thing that there is and no one should turn back that. I remember once in a class a student was reading an essay in which he said that because of bullying he had even got to the point of thinking about suicide. This essay touched me a lot and changed my way of looking at people and of treating people because you also have to think about them and what they might feel. I like the Old Lady’s point of view, because I find myself in love with life too. It is the most marvelous thing there can be and this is why I liked what she said.