“Her life was a cacophony of nonsense…”
She sat down at the little electric piano but played nothing. There was an old musician’s cliché, about how there were no wrong notes on a piano. But her life was a cacophony of nonsense. A piece that could have gone in wonderful directions, but now went nowhere at all. This quote is taken from The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, when Nora Seed begins to wonder if her life is even worth living. When she was younger, she had a really bright future ahead of her. She was a promising swimmer, a good musician, and interested in philosophy. She had many opportunities to truly turn her life around for the better, but failed at every one of those, causing her to feel regretful and disappointed with herself. Nora seems to have an identity crisis, if I were to use a term from psych. She doesn't know what she wants to do and is afraid to follow her dreams and commit herself to a singular occupation for life. So, she backs out of swimming because of the pressure there, she backs out of her ban...