Eat Pray Love

How often do we find ourselves stuck in a our own little world, happy with our own thoughts. But as time passes, we start breathing harder and harder, slowly suffocating. We think we know how to get out, but end up running in circles at the end. Thoughts clouded my head right before I started watching 'Eat Pray Love' starring Julia Roberts. With Liz Gilbert, I visited Italy and relished in the mouthwatering pasta she ate, I prayed in India, and learned what love means in Bali, INdonesia. Liz Gilbert's story is one of inspiration and devotion. I was really inspired by Liz's courage to leave everything supposedly 'right' behind her in a journey to discover herself. It wasn't an easy journey, but she was a new person. A live and 'living' person. It really got me thinking, are we doing what really makes us happy? Or are we going along with very step there is in the guidebook? A guidebook might come in handy sometimes, but the wheel is in your hands. We are the authors of our own lives, we write the chapters and scenarios and all, but the ink has not yet dried. There is so much waiting for us outside our bubble, and being too careful would blind you. A flower wilts when you water it too much. For those who watched the movie 'Eat Pray Love' or read the book, would understand where I'm coming from with all this.

"A friend took me to the most amazing place the other day. It's called the Augusteum. Octavian Augustus built it to house his remains. When the barbarians came they trashed it a long with everything else. The great Augustus, Rome's first true great emperor. How could he have imagined that Rome, the whole world as far as he was concerned, would be in ruins. It's one of the quietest, loneliest places in Rome. The city has grown up around it over the centuries. It feels like a precious wound, a heartbreak you won't let go of because it hurts too good. We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we're afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Then I looked at around to this place, at the chaos it has endured - the way it has been adapted, burned, pillaged and found a way to build itself back up again. And I was reassured, maybe my life hasn't been so chaotic, it's just the world that is, and the real trap is getting attached to any of it. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation." Liz Gilbert.


-Dubai