I found love again.
I can relate to him. He's artistic, intelligent, soothing, comfortable, makes me laugh out loud, paints vivid pictures, and makes me feel like an equal. His name....Eat,Pray,Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.
Nearly half way done, I find I'm trying to make less progress just to make it last longer. Just a little longer...
Some quotes that stood out for me:
"So be lonely. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings."
"...one should trust only what one can experience with one's own senses..."
"When you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt..."
2 comments:
That last quotation seems a like a risky move of desperation. When you're at that level, ankles look the same.
I see it as recognizing the thing that makes you happy in "dark times" and being selfish (in a good way) enough to indulge in whatever that is...in order to get yourself out...
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