Room

If you want a good read, this is it. I am enchanted with this book. It is different than anything else I have read since it is written from a five year old's perspective. I am loving it and if you want to borrow it when I am done (oh and when Tyler is done as well), then it would be possible. I am almost done and I started a few days ago.
(Plus it is half off on Amazon and free shipping with Prime!)

Pray.

From the book "Eat Pray Love". Groceries (aka Liz, the author) is talking to Richard from Texas about her past relationship and letting it go while moving on to bigger and better things... or more specifically, moving on to her relationship with herself. Could be my favorite quote from a book, ever.

“Big deal. So you fell in love with someone. Don’t you see what happened? This guy touched a place in your heart deeper than you thought you were capable of reaching, I mean you got zapped, kiddo. But that love you felt, that’s just the beginning. You just got a taste of love. That’s just limited little rinky-dink mortal love. Wait till you see how much more deeply you can love than that. Heck, Groceries—you have the capacity to someday love the whole world. It’s your destiny. Don’t laugh.”

“I’m not laughing.” I was actually crying. “And please don’t laugh at me now, but I think the reason its so hard for me to get over this guy is because I seriously believed David was my soul mate.”

“He probably was. Your problem is you don’t understand what that word means. People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that’s holding you back, the person who brings you to your attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probable the most important person you will ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they leave. And thank God for it. Your problem is, you just can’t let this one go. It’s over, Groceries. David’s purpose was to shake you up, drive you out of that marriage that you needed to leave, tear apart your ego a bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light could get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you had to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master and beat it. That was his job, and he did great, but now it’s over…”

“But I wish me and David could---“

He cuts me off. “See, now that’s your problem. You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wish bone where your backbone outta be.”

This gives me the first laugh of the day.

Then I ask Richard, “So how long will it be before all this grieving passes?”

“You want an exact date?”

“Yes”

“Somethin’ you can circle on a calendar?”

“Yes.”

“Lemme tell you something, Groceries—you got some serious control issues.”

By: Elizabeth Gilbert. Page 150.

Eat. Pray. Love.

I have to rave for one second about this book. I started reading it three days ago and I am in love. The author gets out of an unsatisfying and unfulfilling marriage and immediately falls madly in love with a man who can't return the love she is thrusting at him. What does she do? Runs away to Italy, India and Indonesia, of course! No, I don't just love it because I can relate to all the emotions she is explaining and the fact that she fled from the country to get away from the dysfunctional relationship. (Okay, yes maybe I do love it for these reasons). BUT it is a good story of someone starting over when she is in her mid 30's. 

Ironic that my old roommate, Emily, told me to read it last semester when she started it and I happened to find it in the room I was in at my Teta (Aunt) Linda's house. I decided I put off reading it long enough and just picked it up. (Yet to be put down.) But I am glad I decided to put off reading it until now because I appreciate it that much more. (And I don't think she is crazy for going to Italy to get away from someone she loves... well loved.)

The End.