Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (2010)

Oprah featured this book in her show around 3 or 4 years ago. I was interested of reading it but I didn't get to find one until I finally forgot about it. Now, it's a movie and of course, I won't let it pass (^^,)...

I've seen the movie and I love it. Now I wanna go to Italy to eat pasta (pizza in particular) and I won't hesitate to finish it off by myself :)... It looks to me like there's a lot of walking in Italy so it'll be easy to burn-up the excess calories (^^,)... Praying in India is also different. You meditate and look for inner peace to find God inside you. One thing is for sure, I can't see anything against other's rules so (I think) any religion is welcome. At the end of the movie, she went back to Bali as the medicine man said and found her Brazilian lover.

If I'm going to end  it this way, the story will be so typical but there are a lot of things she went through before she finally told her husband she doesn't want to be married. She had to leave everyone behind and lose everything she worked hard for to find herself. Who would have thought that a successful writer's entire proof of existence all fit in a room with a lot of extra space. Thinking about it, I have a lot more space than a 23 yr. old should have so it shouldn't be hard to relate. When all you think about is getting on track, how many times do you check that you're on right one; that the shaking in your car is just a bump in the road and it's not tearing apart...

Sometimes we work so hard and to get what we want to the point that we're all burned out that we forget the very reason why we're doing it in the first place... In that case, we need someone to remind us but how can He tell you, when you don't even call...

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Becoming Jane

I watched this movie yesterday starring Anne Hathaway as the writer Jane Austen of a popular book Pride and Prejudice (which also became a movie in 2005). It's an old English story and may actually be boring at first sight. The language pattern is old and I'm not so use of the English accent so it was a bit difficult to understand. I also have to use subtitles and read some of the lines :)...

Anyway, the story is still great (well, for me..). It's about love, relationship, family, and ambition with a little tragedy... And if there is one word that dictates the story, it would be "propriety". Realistically speaking, it does influence most of us until now... Whatever dictates the context of the word is another thing. It's common to classic stories but the ending is quite unexpected until after the climax (if I spotted it correctly ^^,) and if I was wrong, the ending still contradicted the word "propriety" and its definition during that century.There's also a lot of ups and downs in the level of excitement. One minute they're happy, the next they're not.

It's one story that makes you wonder if getting what your heart desire necessary to make your happy, whose comfort are you willing to sacrifice to get it and and to what extent are you willing to risk with what you have; a story that says I know "what's best for you" but hardly understand its difference with "what's best for them". In any event that you try to meet it half-way, you might just end-up finding yourself in a bigger trouble than before.

The thing that made me love this story is the fact that she was able to enjoy her life in every aspect even if she didn't live it as propriety dictates.

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