______________*[[_____ im not perfect. - but neither are you (: //*`____

Thursday, May 04, 2006

I just finished reading a book lend to me by my BRO almosy a year ago, but only now I was able to squeeze it in, for the nth time I have been lazy in reading books. I don't know I am a book worm, but I am not just a consistent one.

Probably, it is because I saw Celmer wrapping books and one of them was Coelho's novel THE ALCHEMIST, which I have mistaken he already have and in fact he lend it to me; in which he said it was a different book. Well, indeed, so when I went home I look for it and started reading it. It took me one and half day to read it, though it is not a thick one and I really read it whenever I have time even when I am travelling on my way to the office.

And now, I am through reading it, there's this feeling inside me that I want to discuss and say something about it, how good the book was. In fact, even I am just in the middle of it, I can't help but to feel strange (in a good way of course) that made me take my reading seriously and focus with it.

I can't help it but to relate the situation of the main character to my own life and I am pretty much sure everyone will. It is all about life, its struggles and finding answers to your existence and how to go about in your life after all the trials, and how to understand such things why it happen. I must say that there are things in my life that had happened and until now I am still searching for justifications and reasons why it happened and why some things didn't happen. Though at some point I was able to understand it, but as a human I can't help but to struggle with God, question Him about it. In this book, I realized that struggling with him is part of life that we had, it is in struggling with him that we are able to strengthen our faith and learn from it.

Most of the times, we question him about the misfortunes and trials that come along our way, and ask him if he is God why he let bad things to happen. The book said that you call it the "unavoidables", but these are just temporary things, what is permanent is what we can learn from this unavoidables and be able to stand up again and learn from it.

As simple as that. Amazing isn't it? Though of course it is not easy when it involves feelings and the people around you that you love. It is also part of that, and as a human it is okay to feel that way but we must be able to read and understand it in wider perspective. I remember the part when Elijah brought the boy to the top of the Fifth Mountain, and only then he was able to realize why God always wants to communicate atop of the mountain.

I don't want to give too much about this book, it is for everyone to discover how good the book is and I do hope you'll hear me in saying "go grab a copy and read it, and after that let us discuss the contrasting beauty of life".

[x] im not perfect either
2:36 PM

thaiprince //* 0=)