Eating, Praying, Loving

Dear Diary,

I have nothing much to say here but confess that i have wasted 2 days back to back. My next exam is of Labour Law but so much has been happening lately in and around me that studying seems to be the last thing on my mind. (Yea yea.. i will i will..just after i finish with you.)

I just listened to this wonderful song from ABBA.. i js love the band.. the songs named 'when all is said and done'.. it is such an honest song.. The first stanza goes like this:

Heres to us one more toast and then well pay the bill
Deep inside both of us can feel the autumn chill
Birds of passage, you and me

We fly instinctively
When the summers over and the dark clouds hide the sun
Neither you nor Im to blame when all is said and done

Anyhow.. i am trying to be as positive as i can be. Trying to fight off the demons of the mind. This time i know i won't buckle down. :)

I have been reading this wonderful wonderful book these days. It's called Eat, Pray, Love.. someone (my jiaji) gifted it to me and I am so happy he did! You know I always think of certain books as a dish or cuisine.. some are too sweet, some too salty.. some too weird but fun and some simply abominable. Some we have to have to finish in one read ..those that flow easily and we are able to swallow the words like noodles or macaroni..there's hardly any patience to chew! Some books are like the mundane food we eat..we'll eat it alright but we won't recall the taste once our plate is wiped clean. A very rare breed are those books which take us with them and make us travel.. like eating authentic food in an ethnic setting.. picture eating authentic Chinese or Thai or Mexican food that makes you feel like you have actually travelled the distance. And then there is the quintessential variety of Classics that are like good old maggie or malai kofta or daal makhni or shahi paneer or parantha or chawal-daal that becomes your staple diet and you order it each time you are ordering not just for the taste but for the familiarity it brings to your table. And then ~ there are books like the one I am reading ~ Eat, Pray, Love..which is like the mouthwatering dessert that you have before dinner and then forget about the dinner! Of course this categorization is in my head and needless to say reflective of my life and times! 

Eat, Pray, Love is not an unputdownable read. It is a book you can re-read. I see it as a chocolate truffle that I wanna relish and savour..trying to keep it rolling under my tongue for longer and longer till it melts and slides! It would be a shame to finish it in one go...the joy of reading does not lie in the end; it is in the journey. More than the book I think the timing for me to be reading it is perfect. There could not have been a righter book for the righter time. The last 'dessert book' to me was The Kite Runner...there are many more names to boot but may be later in the post.

I don't wanna give away why it is doing to me what I so wanted done to me. I just know that while reading it in the last few days I have come across instances and passages that tell my own story and relieve me of burdens i have a habit of carrying around.. I hope I don't sound overt here but I just wanna keep reading it for the simple things of life. And before I shut it at night and switch off the lights..I look at the remaining pages and do an invisible jig inside of me. that there is still halfway to go :)

More when i finish it. And oh- a word to the author- Elizabeth Gilbert ~ "Excellanto!"

PS: more about spritualism later

More dessert books: Jane Eyre, Kite Runner, Life of Pi, Memoirs of a Geisha, and i wont shy away from mentioning ALL Harry Potters. More but later. Have to rush. 

Lots of love