Hugh Prather’s ’’NOTES TO MYSELF’’ is a powerful, yet sensitive collection of wise thoughts written just you and I write a diary. It is a personal account of Prather’s retrospective and introspective view of life.
What is life all about? Who are we? Where have we come from? What is that common thread running among all humanity which somehow connects each and every human-being? This book is a view of a person who is inside the world but still a part of him is ’’on the outside, looking in’’.
Hugh Prather very astutely weighs success and failure, relationships and life as a whole and draws wise facts about life. When he says, ’’ there’s beauty even in devastation. even a heap of garbage can evoke something’’. Sounds stupid at first but read it again and it sets you thinking. When he says , ’’ people will always be proud of the result but never of your effort’’, we all know how close he is to the truth. ’’NOTES TO MYSELF’’ is not philosophical, it is a just a beautiful and wise psalm of life.
It just reminds you that good or bad, strong or weak, rich or poor , somewhere we have humanity and its vulnerability tucked away in us. Random thoughts with a lot of depth and meaning is what this little book is all about.It really doesn’t need a review, it just needs a heartfelt reading and it doesn’t matter whether you like it or not. Consciously or unconsciously , it’ll simply sink into your life. I rate it 9/10.