Create your own Midnight Library!

Urvashi Saxena
2 min readFeb 25, 2024
Photo by Emil Widlund on Unsplash

The Midnight Library, a novel written by Matt Haig,

Takes you to an imaginative world,

A world, where living multiple lives is a possibility

Where you get to live through the paths of different choices.

Did you decide to live in a new city 7 years ago?

Yes? Oh, you can live the life you would have had, had you not moved.

Oh, this concept is everything I have waited for.

For all the choices I have made, I have wondered

Wondered what life would have been had I…

Had I chosen to go to school in a different country

Had I chosen to go stay in my ocean-loving city

Had I taken better care of me

Had I had the chance to see my grandfathers before their last breath

Had I been more forgiving or empathetic

Had I lived a little more, stressed less, and not rushed through life

Had I lived through a moment not 5 minutes ahead of time

Had I learned to breathe and live in the moment

Had I learned to fail and get up from the fall

Had I waited to listen instead jump to answer

Oh! What would my life look like?

Alas, I can’t stand on a library covered ceiling to floor

With books in my hands of every decision I ever took

I can, however, be more mindful of my decisions.

Breathe more, live more, laugh more.

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Urvashi Saxena

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