Eat, Pray, Love.

Growing up my favorite book to read was Hatchet.  A young boy named Brian was in a plane crash in the Canadian mountains and had to survive alone.  I'm more of an adventure reader, now one of my favorite books to read is Into The Wild.  Maybe it's because I grew up with boys all around me, playing in the woods for hours upon hours.  I think my childhood turned me into a nature lover so when I heard about the book Eat, Pray, Love, I thought to myself this isn't the book for me.  Clearly I was wrong! As all of you girls know the story of Elizabeth Gilbert walking away from her life to find herself takes her to Italy, Bali, and Indonesia. I couldn't put this book down and now that there is a movie coming out I am tickled pink! Julia Roberts is the perfect actress to play Elizabeth and I am counting down the days till it comes out.  This book touched me in many ways.  I always thought that doing stuff by myself was kind of uncommon these days.  I can pretty much do anything by myself.  I go to the movies by myself if I want, I go to the zoo by myself, I go on hikes by myself to photograph beautiful things, and at one point I wondered why I felt so comfortable doing these things alone.  Having time for just yourself let's you reflect on what's important in your life.  When you are constantly surrounding yourself by other people, you tend to get lost in all of their hobbies.  When I am alone I can allow myself to fully submerge my thoughts and creativity into something I want.  We shouldn't be scared to do things alone or to be alone.  We should take that time to appreciate our own thoughts and how we choose to spend our time.  So I will leave you with a quote from the book. Please share your own favorite quotes from the book and your reflections on the book. 

"There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts." 
— Elizabeth Gilbert