My Chosen Form of Escape: Reading.
Well, I had a million and one ideas (okay, that’s a lie, but quiet a few) on what to blog about. I was thinking the “resolved” oil spill, animal testing, the movie Eat, Pray, Love (which I just finished watching today with a good friend of mine), misconceptions about Wicca, and several other topics, but I decided on something different just now. There has been so much going on in my life this summer that I feel like I might just crash and burn anytime now. I literally feel like my world is going to fall apart at some point.
After watching the movie Eat, Pray, Love today, my friend and I decided that we just had to get our hands on the book as well. The movie is just incredible (Julia Roberts was phenomenal) and knowing that the movie is actually based on the real life events and a book by Elizabeth Gilbert was…wow. The woman has guts and she is so right. We need to realize that we’re in charge of our own lives. Sometimes we just ride life like a train, we go wherever it takes us, but that’s not fulfilling. We need to take life by the reigns and do something for ourselves. Happiness isn’t given as a gift, it’s achieved.
So, after I got home I found myself rummaging though junk in the drawers in my room looking for…my library card. (Which I found after I gave up looking for it. -sigh-) Where I am right now, I’m not able to do like Elizabeth did and take off a year and just travel the world, but I can find other means of escape. Earlier this summer I had made a list of books I had planned to read. The list got lost with the other things I planned to do this summer that just wouldn’t or couldn’t happen, but I’ve decided, now at the end of summer vacation, to start on that list. My means of escape? Though books.
Yeah, I know, it sounds a bit…nerdy. (Or stupid maybe?) Books, though, they allow you to get lost in a world of fiction. If you allow yourself to get immersed in a good book, you’ll find yourself in an alternate reality. You can escape from the world and not even leave the comfort of your own bedroom. So, after finding my library card, I’ve decided to remake my summer reading list and I challenge you to make your own. Take a break from your life. Sit in a quiet area, maybe with a cup of tea, and get lost in a fictional world where your problems are non-existent and the only conflict there is, is that of the protagonist.
Here’s my (incomplete) summer reading list:
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Tweet Heart by Elizabeth Rudnick
a field guide for heart breakers by Kristen Tracey
Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
Heist Society by Ally Carter
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