First thought-
Hesitation to buy the book
final thought-
You will miss the Borivali fast if you don’t make up your mind.
So, here I go.
The book start off on a rather sweet note with smelling of flowers and chirping of birds.Thereafter what follows is pithy jotting about how negative emotions aren’t bad; selfishness needs to be further explored and the power of now if realized can make you grow as a person and enrich your life in every way.
The author has talked about his interactions with his wife Gayle and some other sundry characters who behave in a normal fashion and how the author reacts to their behaviour.
It also questions the relevance of life vis-a-vis death.One of the striking aspects of this book is this ability to make you feel good without presuming that you are great, honest, kind, powerful or hardworking.For someone as lazy as I am, it makes for interesting read -how I don’t have to analyze life since I stop living it the moment I do that and how I don’t need to do a lot of planning for future since that thought is based on the premise that I am wiser today than I would be tomorrow.And I refuse to believe that.
Let me now take you through some of the important thoughts penned by this author at the cost of revealing everything the books has to offer.I am doing that because this book has nothing so insightful or thrilling that would spoil the reading if I tell you the crux.Now then trust me after reading this one, I doubt if telling you so is another presumption of mine.Never mind, read on.
I will be what I will be. and I am now what I am.Here is where I will devote my energy.My power is with me not with tomorrow.
I do believe that if we could just do all the things we ever wanted to do, it might land us in trouble but sooner or later we will be proud of what we did right then. I am likely to be proven wrong by talking about wars, poverty, terrorism, work stress, failure etc. Lets not forget that maslow might be dead but his theory wasn’t all that bad was it? Secondly, does everyone only want flashy BMWs and Manhattan penthouse or do we have simple desires which are worthy of our attention.
Guilt will mournfully address any subject but one-correcting the mistake.
Not wanting to express negative feelings is also a feeling, a part of me and if it is the greater part, I will be truer to myself by not expressing them.
Analysis is condemnation.I ask myself, why do you want to do that. This question is ill willed.I am seeking a motive that I prejudges unworthy of me.
How very true when it undermines one’s faith in her mind and precludes any possibility of being able to fulfill it thereafter.
And now, this is a nice one:
Standing before a refrigerator if I have to ask myself if I am hungry, I am not.
Lastly my favourite which might sound hackneyed but I guess explains everything the author wants to say, Today I don’t want to live for, I want to live.
Its a tiny little book which gets over in one sitting, thought provoking, makes you question a lot about yourself and the world but gives you a solution without preaching anything-no motivational gyan and prophecies of your success.Sit back and enjoy.
Don’t forget to RRC my review.