I am unconcerned with whether or not it was arranged beforehand to be a book. Gilbert must have needed this trip when she took it – I hope that is the case – and I am so grateful that she chose to write down her experiences. We don’t know what is in the heart of someone else. All we know is 1) what we can see or read with our eyes 2) what they tell us. But the truth is that we never really know what is going on with someone else. It’s really easy, you guys, to tell someone that they have it all. Gilbert and have a real face-to-face talk about this experience, more than just these pages had to offer, because I think that she could really fire me up a bit about my own life based on her experiences.
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ME doing that would not include a months-long trip across the world, but wouldn’t that be nice? I’d love to travel and learn how to enjoy life a bit more, be a bit happier, eat food from other cultures, meet new people. I also want to be brave enough to take life by the collar and shake it up and CHANGE IT if it isn’t working out for me. These opinions and statements reflect my own feelings, friends, and not the feelings of any of you and are not judgments if any of you felt this way. I don’t want to go into the story believing that this character/person is self-indulgent because her life is different than mine – I don’t want to “realize” it along the way – guys, I just want to read her story. ALSO (again) I always try hard to just read a story for what it is – a story – and not put myself or my beliefs or my feelings onto the characters/people on the inside of it. ALSO – I have a tendency to not see characters (or in this case, people) as whiny as often as other people like in the case of these books and their main character.
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Lucky for me, it kind of made an impact on ME and I was also entertained and will likely read the book again when my life settles down a bit – and I would like to see the movie adaptation as well. It became a popular book and was turned into a movie. She made a choice, she stuck with her choice, and she wrote about it.
Gilbert self-indulgent and whiny (because who am I to judge her?), I realize that she was indeed feeling like she was going through a crisis. In the case of Eat Pray Love, not only did I not find Ms. Ultimately, when Gilbert wasn’t looking for it (nor planning for it), she ended up finding love. From there, Gilbert moved on to Indonesia where she planned to put everything she had learned in the previous months to use: a good balance of spirituality and enjoying life. She moved from there to India where she spent some time studying spirituality – I mean really hardcore studying – which is where the ‘pray’ portion of the title comes from. I LOVE LOVE LOVED the time she spent in Italy, sampling the food and learning the culture and remembering what it was to just enjoy life again.
Eat Pray Love is Gilbert’s first-hand account of the time spent in each place, including some first-hand experiences, interactions with locals, and relationships built with special people. She made a plan before she left and doggone it, she stuck to it.
She spent some time in Italy, India, and Indonesia. Gilbert decided to take a chunk of time off to travel the world. Did I appreciate and enjoy her story along the way? YES YES SO MUCH YES.Īfter a relationship that went south, and then a sad rebound relationship, Ms. But did I feel like she was open and honest about the course she took? YES. Did I take on her ideals and her beliefs and her notions on how life should be? NO. What resulted was a bit of a breakdown on her part and a few (in my opinion) not-great decisions and a few (in my opinion) great decisions - that is how I saw the book in a very broken-down nutshell.ĭid I always agree with Ms. By the looks of it, she has it all: a husband, a great career, plenty of material possessions – but she felt that something was missing in her life. So as the summary suggests, Elizabeth Gilbert is an early thirty-something who is struggling with…herself. Everyone reads books very differently – particularly those of us who regularly hang out for long periods of time in the book community, around bookish people – but for me, this book just worked really well and I was able to look beyond some of the reasons other people found the book so off-putting. My Thoughts: I can’t say that I am at all surprised that opinions are so varied on Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love, but I CAN tell you that I loved it SO VERY MUCH.
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