summary ofThe Comfort BookBook by Matt Haig

first KEY POINT

Your true self is perfect even when you have doubts

Would you believe it if someone told you that you don’t need an extra thing to make you complete? Yes, it's best to be yourself at all times. Remember how complete you felt as a baby, even without a single possession or achievement. Your ultimate achievement was in the fact that you possessed a human life, and that in itself was and still is extremely valuable. There’s always the temptation to find fulfillment in being someone else other than you, that feeling when no one else seems to like the things you like. Well, it’s okay to like what you like even if no one else does.

Going through life, you’d have a plethora of feelings suggesting different things. While such feelings may be true, the things they’d be leading you to believe could all be lies. Time has a way of always revealing that the sermons your feelings preach to you are mere assumptions, not facts. So again, a positive perspective and a hopeful mind become an asset in your downtime because your feelings would seek to blur your vision. However, a hopeful mind would help you gradually move towards the point when you must have parted with the pain, the point where you’d see that you are not the pain, you are not your downtime, you are not that ugly situation. You are you, and that depression is not you. If you hung on yet a little while, you’d have moved on, your experience would have changed, and you’d have discovered you’re just okay in being you. You are more than the pain you go through, and you’d always be there, even after it is all gone.This summary enlightens you on how to keep hope alive, even if it’s the smallest piece of it. It emphasizes living in the hope of the possibility of a better future no matter how gloomy today may seem to be.