Before I Go to Sleep

"Before I Go to Sleep" is a fiction written by the English writter, S.J. Watson. The fition was about a woman called Christine who only had the short-term memory which cannot last to the second day and lost her long-term memory due to a violant attack. With the assistance of a doctor, Christine started to read and write the diary so that she could gradually know what happened as the established records.

 

You would not know what exactly happened until reading the final few pages. You, along with Christine in the book, started to solve the puzzle piece by piece by reading her diary repeatedly. Of course, you will finally know who is the one that injured Christine in the past as a part of happy ending to complete the puzzle.

 

If we were Christine, will we be happy or anxious because we know nothing about the past? Christine was very anxious when she woke up every morning as she could not remember anything. Later in a day, she became calmer with the comfort from the man living with her. However it seemed that she was not totally content with what her was as she was smart with the mobility for higher level of self- accomplishment which she could not reach under the current circumstance. As a human being, we are luckily given with the complexity of the senses and the thoughts but we are also sometimes suffering as we are too sensitive about our feelings. 

 

Before her falling asleep, Christine tried to grasp what she could remember as she gonna forget them next day. Before I go to sleep, I think I am more lucky that I can fall asleep without the worries most of nights.