EAT PRAY LOVE.... lessons about life

One year ago I bought a used book from a ¨Goodwill¨ store. It only cost me USD. 1,50. It took me more than a year to decide to read it. But is fantastic how life works, because I am reading it exactly when I actually need it. I have been learning a lot from this brilliant writer´s opinion about life, love, depression, pleasure and life.

EAT PRAY LOVE, written by a marvelous woman named Elizabeth Gilbert, is actually a ¨diary of searching of real happiness¨. This book is not only written with humor, but with real feelings. It talks to you like nobody ever did; it is like a cruel best friend, who will tell you everything you need to know about life. This honest friend will be your guide in those dark moments we all have.

                                                     ¨SAY IT LIKE YOU EAT IT¨

In the firsts ¨Beads¨ (no, this book is not divided in chapters, but in Beads*) we meet a professional American woman in her mid-thirties who left EVERYTHING (a failed marriage in New York, a nightmare of divorce (that left her empty pocket), a passionate love affair with a younger man) to try (to run away, like some people would say) to find happiness in a gorgeous city called Rome.

What I like most about Liz (a friendly way to call her, like I said before, this book/its author has become our best friend) is that she left a ¨wonderful¨ life to look for her own definition of Magnificent. She was a typical successful woman, she had it all. A lovely husband, a great job as a writer, a lot of money, she lived in the city that never sleeps but, she was not happy. She did not let the world tell her how to behave, what to do. She has a voice and she believes in her voice. She was not happy and she was not making her surroundings happier by not being happy (don´t fool yourself, my friend Liz was super selfish, but I admire her for that. Trust me; being selfish is a difficult task), so she decided to take a sabbatical year and travel to three countries to find herself.  First stop: Italy, where she is not only learning Italian, meeting handsome guys but she is also eating everything she can (it´s understandable, she is in Italy, the country of the Pizzas and pastas).

*When you travel to India you see a lot of people wearing beads around their necks. The traditional japa mala is a stung with 108 beads. Liz decided to structure the book like a japa mala, dividing her story into 108 tales, or beads. 

                                                                 Japa mala