🎙 Welcome to The Quiet Footnote — where we don’t just summarize books, we hold them close enough to feel their pulse.In this episode, we step into When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi — a memoir where life, death, and meaning meet on the thin, trembling edge of time.This isn’t just a story about dying.It’s a story about how to live when you know your time is running out.📜 “I can’t go on. I’ll go on.”Through the eyes of a brilliant neurosurgeon facing terminal cancer, Kalanithi explores the weight of purpose, the fragility of ambition, and the beauty of ordinary days.It’s both a farewell letter and a love letter — to medicine, to literature, to family, to life itself.💡 What’s Inside This Summary:Why chasing meaning matters more than chasing successBalancing the roles we play — professional, partner, patientHow mortality sharpens what truly mattersThe tenderness and terror of love in the face of lossThe quiet courage of living without guarantees🌍 Why It Matters Now:In a world that distracts us from our impermanence, When Breath Becomes Air is a clear, steady voice reminding us that our lives are finite — and that’s what makes them precious.🕯 Because you can’t stop time, but you can fill it.

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