The Timekeeper by Mitch Albom

Another personal favourite from Mitch Albom. His book is the kind where you end up learning something and it just teaches you a whole lot of things about living and life processing as a whole. This book spells out the ridiculous overrated dilemma that has been of existence for the longest time "dying people wants to extend their life while young people just wants to end it". I don't really know how to put it into right words but the jest is like that.

In this society where pleasing norms and acquiring almost every thing that can be acquired, always boils down to a person's incapacity to be satisfied and be happy with what little or in excess that they have. Which is said. Personally speaking, there are instances where I silently complain for the things that I don't have but never did it occur to me to end my own life if my problems are unsolvable or extend life in the event that the time would come. I think this option choices are pathetic. One should be happy and be contented with everything that s/he has been blessed with.

The Household Guide To Dying by Debra Adelaide

Probably one of the most amazing books I've read about life and it's realist complex. Never heard of this book 'til I saw it on a booksale at a very discounted price - just got to have it because it's hard bound and the front cover is very interesting. For the passed months, I've been collecting books on hard copies via booksale :)

The story focuses on one's preparation for that final big day. Not just any ordinary day but a special one which is as special as your birth date, wedding and a whole lot of stuff. I think that it's really important to prepare ourselves mentally, physically and spiritually for death, though some comes in unexpectedly and in an untimely manner, still the book had it all seemed covered.

I've seen and known family members and friends die out of sickness and I always thought they've had lived life to the fullest, specially if they've been given enough time to process everything, however, I still feel (after reading the book) that no one can really say s/he is ready for something that means the end, though I believe in after life, the reality of not seeing the people you used to see and be spending time with is scary. I think, for those who are on the edge can say, they're scared but are not showing it. Either way, the important thing is to live each and every single day like it is your last. Say I love you, I miss you as much as you can and show it and make the people your care for feel how special they are. 

I would totally recommend this book. How, it was written was also beautiful. There were chapters were I cried and thought of situations because it was just to real.

The Zahir By Paulo Coelho

Currently Listening To: Colors by Tori Amos

I'm a believer of so many things. I believe in almost everything that exists and in both good and bad that is within each breathing organism that surrounds me. 

It has been a year since I bought this book and started reading. It has traveled into 4 cities in Asia but I just finished reading the entire plot today. 

It is not the typical Paulo Coelho book that I like, I basically bought this out of the need to collect all his literary piece. I find the book a bit dragging but the end part made me think. I was not meant to read it last year. I was meant to finish reading it at this exact moment.

I always believe that certain things happens for a reason, that everything has its sole purpose as to why it has to be like this and that and now I must admit, finishing this piece came out at the perfect moment.

Like the lead character I've been blinded by the zahir. I've lived by it's shadows for the passed years and I've struggled hard enough to maintain the balance within me to keep me afloat in most days when it just feels like shit in most part.

I think that when you're in love with a person, you don't require any answers to all the questions that you have in mind, you just let things be. You don't have to understand the choices that came along instead you have to accept and embrace the pain that goes with it. You acknowledge your weakness and the strength that will come out from all the decisions that you made and are about to make.

At the end of the book, it did not matter whether she got pregnant by another man nor how long she waited for him to come back, or how much he wanted answers for all the questions he had. It didn't matter because when they found each other, the contentment of finding each other was all the mattered. The acceptance for the past and the clear embracement of the present and the future is all the mattered.

I don't really know if I'm making any sense now but I feel a different high. Every Paulo Coelho collection is inspiring and unique in so many ways. You learn from each stories and you can relate at some instances though your experiences are randomly different from what was written.