Eat Pray Love...
I have had my nose stuck in Eat Pray love and I am loving every page. I am only reading the book now but the title has been my mantra for a while. As i flip through the pages it almost feels as if Elizabeth Gilbert wrote this book for me. After I am done with the book I WILL NOT watch the movie lest bad acting spoils this lovely read
I'll share an excerpt with you, I laughed when I read this passage because once upon a time in a season of naivety I loved just the way she described...
Moreover, I have boundary issues with men. Or maybe that’s not fair to say. To have issues
with boundaries, one must have boundaries in the first place, right? But I disappear into
the person I love. I am the permeable membrane. If I love you, you can have everything. You
can have my time, my devotion, my ass, my money, my family, my dog, my dog’s money, my
dog’s time—everything. If I love you, I will carry for you all your pain, I will assume for you all
your debts (in every definition of the word), I will protect you from your own insecurity, I will
project upon you all sorts of good qualities that you have never actually cultivated in yourself
and I will buy Christmas presents for your entire family. I will give you the sun and the rain,
and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check. I will give you all
this and more, until I get so exhausted and depleted that the only way I can recover my energy
is by becoming infatuated with someone else...
(Eat Pray Love page 78)
I'll share an excerpt with you, I laughed when I read this passage because once upon a time in a season of naivety I loved just the way she described...
Moreover, I have boundary issues with men. Or maybe that’s not fair to say. To have issues
with boundaries, one must have boundaries in the first place, right? But I disappear into
the person I love. I am the permeable membrane. If I love you, you can have everything. You
can have my time, my devotion, my ass, my money, my family, my dog, my dog’s money, my
dog’s time—everything. If I love you, I will carry for you all your pain, I will assume for you all
your debts (in every definition of the word), I will protect you from your own insecurity, I will
project upon you all sorts of good qualities that you have never actually cultivated in yourself
and I will buy Christmas presents for your entire family. I will give you the sun and the rain,
and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check. I will give you all
this and more, until I get so exhausted and depleted that the only way I can recover my energy
is by becoming infatuated with someone else...
(Eat Pray Love page 78)
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