Eat Pray Love

A friend of mine was recently kind enough to buy me a book because she liked it so much and she believed I would like it too.

I LOVE this book.

The title is "Eat Pray Love - A Woman's Search For Everything" by Elizabeth Gilbert. It is an account of the author's love as she tries to find answers after a failed marriage and more importantly, find herself. The journey takes her to Italy, India and Indonesia where she slowly rediscovers happiness.

I found myself laughing at the healthy dosages of humour, tearing at moments of emotion and inspiration, learning through tidbits of information and fact - This book is truly marvellous as the author takes us into the world she sees and the world that evolves from within.

Perhaps more than anything, I love this book because I saw so much of myself in it. Everything from how she fell apart, how she admitted her weaknesses, how she loved travelling, how she loved writing...everything. It's like my own voice speaking in so many ways.

I truly recommend it for anyone, not just female to read it if you have questions inside, not just about romantic love, but more so the love for life. If all that fails, she really has good bits information about the places she has seen :)

An excerpt:

"The Bhadavad Gita - that ancient Indian Yogic text - says it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly. "

http://www.elizabethgilbert.com/eatpraylove.htm

I always believed and still do, that books come into people's lives (at least mine) for a reason. If there was a book angel, she is definitely being nice to me. She always gave me the right books at the right time. I always found the answers at the right time. This book has come to me at a right time too, just as I contemplate the person within.

I also found a truly encouraging paragraph on her webpage:

"Here’s another thing to consider. If you always wanted to write, and now you are A Certain Age, and you never got around to it, and you think it’s too late…do please think again. I watched Julia Glass win the National Book Award for her first novel, “The Three Junes”, which she began writing in her late 30’s. I listened to her give her moving acceptance speech, in which she told how she used to lie awake at night, tormented as she worked on her book, asking herself, “Who do you think you are, trying to write a first novel at your age?” But she wrote it. And as she held up her National Book Award, she said, “This is for all the late-bloomers in the world.” Writing is not like dancing or modeling; it’s not something where – if you missed it by age 19 – you’re finished. It’s never too late. Your writing will only get better as you get older and wiser. If you write something beautiful and important, and the right person somehow discovers it, they will clear room for you on the bookshelves of the world – at any age. At least try."

That's for the writer, artist, dancer, poet in you.