Finding Balance

As I reached the final chapter in Elizabeth’s journey I close my high school experience. The last part is love, which I have come to the conclusion, is a fundamental parting everyone’s life and we need it in our journey to finding happiness.

I am talking the love to yourself and to others, when it comes to love I would not consider myself an expert since I am still trying to learn how to love myself and I have not love anyone romantically. But I am learning everyday how to be better.

There is a part in this chapter where she writes the “Instructions for freedom” so I decided to choose the ones that will work for me :

-       You have just climbed up and above the roof. There is nothing between you and the Infinite. Now, let go.

-       With all your heart, forgive him, FORGIVE YOURSELF, and let him go.

-       When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It’s safe. Let go.

I have somehow fear since I am soon to enter university, which means new fresh possibilities, I am scared of failure but I think I have grown since the first day I started school. That scare girl just like Elizabeth when she decided to take her journey and we both came back being mature and finding the right balance in our lives.

I really enjoyed the book and I absolutely recommended to anyone, just wanderlust when your life is feeling like it is not making any sense.

eat PRAY love

India / Brazil

This "chapter" of the book came in the right time; I started the first page as the plane was taking of to Rio de Janeiro. The since of being on a trip always gives me some sort of hope, like going to a new place full of strangers where nobody knows me or knows anything about me.

I was going to visit my best friend, back in France we had some little rituals like taking the bus everyday at the same time or ordering the same thing in our favorite restaurant; they remained me of a union like "to attach yourself to a task at hand with ox like discipline."(Pg 160) Those kind of rituals helped me loose my mind and kept me in a somehow balance, just like the yoga for Elizabeth.

I believe that we need to relive our minds and body, at this point of the book the character is in peace with her body and with her ancient relationships but she still needs to find herself and God; one of the main reasons I am a wanderlust is the feeling of serenity walking down in a crowded street where I am on my own gives me. 

" The potency of the enlightened consciousness."(Pg 163) When you find someone in your life that is able to pass on their knowledge their state of grace in order to help you understand your purpose in life and learn it's meaning. I think sometimes we are quite lucky in life and we are able to find our Gurus, even if it is in the weirdest way possible.

As I had say in the last post I greatly recommend this book. In my personal opinion the Pray part of the book is quite slow and it is not my favorite, But I understand that her relationship with God is one of the main reasons she decides to make this trip and I do believe spirituality is important for a healthy life.

But the dialogs she has with herself help you understand the book more and they surely makes it more enjoyable.

Eat Pray Love. Elizabeth Gilbert

I really like the book, because i find it refreshing in the sense of self-knowledge when you break up with someone. The fact that you can be with yourself trying to connect with your inner purpose.

" Il bel far niente means the beauty of doing nothing." (pg80) So far this book has been just amazing, I am in the part of the book when the character is in Italy also known as the eating part and the descriptions are just so realistic I found myself mouthwatering at an imaginary gelato or wishing I was in Rome walking down a piazza.

The character is quite relatable, she is trying to find herself and in the same time you question your own decisions. Your main objective is to find out if you are happy with yourself and understanding that you are the only one that can improve your life. 

If you are searching for a easy read or going through a tough breakup this is the book for you.

It is the second time I read this book and even now, I am finding myself awed by the book and inspired in a very different manner than before. The first time I was not very fond of the romantic part of it and i really did not really care about how her partners had affected her decisions, I cared more on how she decided to travel around and being in charge of her own life. 

But this time I realized that those decisions are the echoes of her relationships and that she was not feeling like herself anymore and I think sometimes we all need to take a break of our own lives." He looks at you like you're someone he's never met before, much less someone he once loved with high passion." (page 25)