When one finds difficulty in searching for an area to contemplate and update his/her blog, he/she should go around the whole house to find the most suitable place.
That was what I did.
I lugged my laptop and the bulky charger practically all over the house and finally found a spot in my dining room. It wasn't really bursting with positive energy but it had space. Here I am surrounded by flowers. Why? Because my dining room's table cloth is all so flowery and a matching cabinet cloth can be found just adjacent to it. The curtains of the dining room is bright pink and my walls are a soothing green. What makes it even great, sunlight seaps through the transparent curtains and it is neither too bright or too dim. Just right. So here I am... engulfed by its warmth and postive aura.
Eat, Pray & Love has been a blessing in disguise. I know reading about a woman's trials and tribulations after her divorce and separation from her young lover doesn't really consider it blessing but it is just how someone manages to heal from all her ordeal that fascinates me.
She travelled to Italy to firstly learn Italian and find pleasure. She found pleasure through food. Her detailed descriptions of Pizzas and Pastas just makes my tummy go wild. She embarked on a journey straight after that to India. There she would live in an Ashram and learn from a guru how to meditate and find peace within herself. That journey found her meditating to a whole new parallel universe and her consistency eventually paid off once she found peace within herself. Her journey to Bali, Indonesia was the pinnacle of this book. Her descriptions of Bali and their many processions makes me feel as if I was just beside her viewing all those fascinating sights. In this last leg of her journey she found balance. A balance of pleasure and peace. She found someone who truly loves her. Someone who wants and needs her. Someone who will take care of her...
I suck at book reviews but I sincerely feel that Eat,Pray,Love should be a bible to all those seeking pleasure, peace and balance. I wished the book was like The Neverending Story. But I realise the author wanted her readers to go find their own pleasure, peace and balance...
I realise its very Human for all of us to seek high and low for these three ideals. Buddha found his under the Bodhi Tree. Prophet Muhammad found his in the Cave of Hira. I believe if only we seek hard enough we shall find. I hope to find mine one day.
"The Yogic sages say that all pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define out experience and those words being attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras. (I'm a failure... I'm lonely... I'm a failure... I'm lonely...) and we become monuments to them. To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with words, to liberate ourselves from our suffocating mantras."
Eat, Pray ,Love = Done. Now where did I chuck that P.Ramlee book...?
Mimin's Current Thought:
Strives to move on.
Mimin's Gearing For:
Jalan Raya this weekend.
Mimin's Missing:
Robert Ricaro. Siang Yew. Joey Yam. Er Chow Soon. Chan Md Danial. Ronald. Seet. Li Ming. Merv. Winson. Reuben. Danny.
Yao Ming. Ganesh. Salleh. Adi Sufyan. - BSLC ECHO MATES.
Mimin's Praying For:
Nurasyikin Ahmad Shauki.
Hanaa (Farhana Rahim)
