I finished reading Elizabeth Gilbert's 'Eat Pray Love.' It's a deeply satisfying book; it was profound, it was funny, it was enlightening. It tackled food, faith, culture, local customs, sex, friendship, and a whole lot of things under the sun.
These are the things I learned:
1. I want to go to Italy to find all the little restaurants she wrote about, where you get pizza with a chewy dough and melted cheese running all over your fingers. Consequently, I would like to learn the language so I could say "Figlio di mignotta!" with flair.
2. You cannot believe absolutely in either destiny or free will. Each person has half-and-half. There are things that are meant to be, and there are things that's a matter of choice.
3. We have the right to take it up with God the best way we know how. The rituals of religion are good, but what matters is the quietness of your own heart when you talk to whatever supreme being you believe in.
4. You must fall in love with the man, and not the potential of the man. Also, you must love, not because you expect to be loved back, but because you CAN. That's thought-provoking.
5. Go do what you like. Life is short. Love yourself.
I'm not saying the book spells out these lessons. They're what I picked up, and what stays with me when I'm done reading. And I'll probably read it again, for the sake of Luca Spaghetti, the philosophies of Ketut the medicine man, and the love of Felipe the Brazilian. Go find out about them.
These are the things I learned:
1. I want to go to Italy to find all the little restaurants she wrote about, where you get pizza with a chewy dough and melted cheese running all over your fingers. Consequently, I would like to learn the language so I could say "Figlio di mignotta!" with flair.
2. You cannot believe absolutely in either destiny or free will. Each person has half-and-half. There are things that are meant to be, and there are things that's a matter of choice.
3. We have the right to take it up with God the best way we know how. The rituals of religion are good, but what matters is the quietness of your own heart when you talk to whatever supreme being you believe in.
4. You must fall in love with the man, and not the potential of the man. Also, you must love, not because you expect to be loved back, but because you CAN. That's thought-provoking.
5. Go do what you like. Life is short. Love yourself.
I'm not saying the book spells out these lessons. They're what I picked up, and what stays with me when I'm done reading. And I'll probably read it again, for the sake of Luca Spaghetti, the philosophies of Ketut the medicine man, and the love of Felipe the Brazilian. Go find out about them.
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