From what I managed to read today, it reminds me a bit of my favourite of all time, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. This book was such an amazing journey for me. To this day, I can’t remember where I was when I read it, know I was on a plane going somewhere (definitely not home, which at that time was Gothenburg or London), I had about five hours on me, and I took my time and read the whole book. I can’t remember the story and have not read it again yet (SQB is giving me a copy which I’ll read after the Prophet), but I recommend it to everyone.
I think I recommend it because of how I felt after finishing the book, which, luckily I still remember. It was a sort of Eureka moment, wow, life can be so easy if we just go with the flow and try to live with nature, embrace the simple life. Sounds very flower-power now, but I’m sure those who have read the Alchemist know the feeling I am trying to describe. Once I got back to London(?) I made two decisions very easily, decisions I had previously gone back and forth on.
I think The Prophet may have a similar impact on me. My favourite line from today was in the chapter ‘on marriage’, a topic that we’ve been discussing a lot lately (had a discussion with Ruby and her workmate about it just yesterday). The Prophet says:
Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
What a fitting quote for an ocean lover like me! And what a beautiful way to capture how we change as people in life and therefore our love cannot be a solid, tangible thing but rather something so abstract that is always in transition.
5 comments:
Maya, likening love to the movement of the sea is still abstract to me (as is everything about love except touching in one of its many positions and manifestations). That said, I love Gibran too. A friend introduced me to him and I was taken for life. About the decision you took after reading the Alchemist, I think I can guess what it is...
I agree with you, the likening to the sea is abstract, that's what I like about it. The decision I took will be my little secret, although it won't be anything that's going through your mind...
; )
jag har boken av gibran men har fakiskt inte läst den....nu blir jag sugen! måste nog läsa alkemisten också.
gibran säger nåt väldigt klokt angående barn också....nån citerade honom i en gratulation när vi fick J. kram på dig
Trust me, you overestimate what goes on through my mind. I am positive the decision has a not-too-vague association with where you decided to call home, and what you wanted your place in life to be :-)
Aah da maste jag lasa om barn nu, Anna.
Nana Yaw, unfortunately you're wrong but partly close.
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