The 3 I's

Book 16 - A memoir

Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Now, I'm sure you already know this, but I am primarily a fan of fiction. However, mere hours after picking up this novel, I realized that I could, in fact, love a novel which is not of the fictional sort.

Not to my dismay, I observed the events which happened in the novel with much respect and adornment.

One thing I have always loved to do is travel. This novel is all about Liz Gilbert finding herself through a year of travelling.

Now I realize that all of the things that Liz went through which brought her to the point in her life where she felt she needed to leave her whole life behind and find herself; are not even remotely similar to the issues which would ever drive me to leave my well-grounded home life. Alas, there is a sort of excellentness in the idea that there is more of you out there somewhere, just waiting to be found.

One day, I will travel the globe. Don't worry, I'll take you with me. Although, I feel this blog may not be the way you would wish to travel with me. We'll just have to make it work.

In other news, if you have read this book, written by my new friend, Liz; then you are well aware of the spectacular nature in which she relates her journey through storytelling. I am pleased to say that many times during the travel from front cover to back cover, I created a large amount of respect for dear Liz. She was not only searching for herself, she was finding it.

Liz starts out her story lying on a bathroom floor, wondering where it all went wrong. She then proceeds to take every ounce of strength she has and throw it at the challenge of figuring out how to fix her soul. She is not searching for who she was when things were good, she is looking for who she can be because of everything she has experienced. I quite envy Liz. Not for the pain which she wholeheartedly suffered, but for the way that she was able to calm herself down and get her life in order.

Liz finds pleasure in Italy, devotion in India, and balance in Indonesian. Staying in each country for four months, making new friends in every place, and learning brand new things about her soul the entire way through it.

There were many moments during the book where I had to stop myself and remember that this is truly a memoir and not a fictional story. The way in which Liz writes one can easily believe that what is happening is a work of fiction and not a real human life. This is not a bad thing, I found the story much easier to follow with Liz's ability to laugh at her embarrassments and cry at her painfulness. She is truly a role model for lives that have strayed.

I shall definitely be keeping this novel on my shelf, just in case the day comes where I need to do some soul searching of my own.

Peace is a large part of it, this is t-bear signing off