Love story of the century.This product is like Netflix, but for books, an all-around experience of fighting with depression; anxiety; loss; heartbreaks; lost-love, but above all, a soul dealing with the unavoidable suffering of life.
You'll relate to this story because it details the life of a teenage boy who tries to find true love in a harsh and cruel world while battling with mental illness, going years with undiagnosed Bipolar disorder, on his quest to find love and the meaning for life, he overcomes a lot of difficulties along the way, but when the only relationship that kept him going tragically ends he begins to accuse the universe of being cruel for bringing two people together, who on their terms would have it that they remain strangers. Get them to drop their guard and slowly lower their pride, grow expectations, get comfortable and weave threads of the soul to one another, let them feel deeply, break walls, make the world their circus. Leave the streams flowing with painted smiles. And the streets dented with passionate prowls. The story gets exciting, filled with love, hope and bliss. You think nothing could go wrong, and then...
Things you will take from the book.
1. To love at all is to be vulnerable
In the words of Cs Lewis, "love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
2. Healing is a journey
Often a rollercoaster ride, you get up life knocks you down but you rise above it. You'll have to be patient with yourself along this journey of restoration. The best way to heal is to treat yourself like you are someone you will soon fall in love with.
3. Getting closure after a breakup and healing after failed love.
Closure after a break up does not mean you stop loving and caring or reach a point where you completely forget about someone; neither does it mean you are ready to see other people immediately. However, it means you get to a point of reckoning and accept the fact that you failed at making it work despite the
4. Life is pain and suffering.
Life is suffering, it's chaos and order, it's pain, it's deep affliction, it's sadness and joy; bad things happen and although it may not always seem so, we have a choice in how we react. This is not to say not life is only suffering, but pain is a huge part of life and coming to terms with that helps us get to face and triumph over it.
