Here’s an interesting section from Nick Hornby’s “How to be Good”:
“This is what it feels like: you walk into a room and the door locks behind you and you spend a little while panicking, looking around for a key or a window or something, and then when you realize that there’s no way out, you start to make the best of what you’ve got. You try out the chair, and you realize that it’s actually not comfortable, and there’s a TV, and a couple of books, and there’s a fridge stocked with food. You know, how bad can it be? And me asking for a divorce was the panic, but very soon I get to the stage of looking around what I’ve got. And what I’ve got turns out to be two lovely kids, a nice house, a good job, a husband who doesn’t beat me and presses all the right buttons on the lift… I can do this, I think, I can live this life.”
