The summer prior to my junior year in high school, I read your book Eat Pray Love. I honestly went into it thinking about the easiest and most interesting book I could find to read for my AP Language and Composition class summer homework. After doing some research online I found your book and I fell in love with the idea of traveling and finding yourself My wanderlust forced me to order your book and wait the three days it took Barnes and Noble to ship it in.
In case not everyone knows, being a teenager is weird. One day you see the exact path you want to take and where it will end up; the next day you’re basically Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, thrown into a different universe by a tornado of drama. Let’s just say that my sophomore year was …show more content…
I’m not very religious so I felt detached at first, wanting to go back to the fun of Italy, but I saw that you had to move on and I knew I had to as well. We both had to take some time off to take care of our minds. I would read about the ways you meditated and the friends you made in the Ashram. It was so amazing to read from your point of view and feel as if I was in the Ashram working hard with you. I began to work on the rest of my summer homework and I mean really get to work. I woke up early and sat on my porch feeling the sun burn against my legs and arms, just sat there and focused on my breathing. In the few days it took me to read that leg of your trip, I became more calm and focused on my mental health. I found out more about me than I had known in sixteen years. Still five months later, I find myself waking up early and meditating, whether it is taking five minutes of calmness throughout my busy day, or just focusing on my breathing. In your India trip you learned how to listen to yourself and become one physically and mentally with your spirit and I did …show more content…
I couldn’t relate to this particular section at the time because I was still drifting around on that inner tube that is summer break. But a month later once school began, I found myself falling into the deep dark hole that was sophomore year again. I reflected on the Indonesian part of your trip and how it took you a little bit to learn to balance your life, but you did it and I knew I could too. This is why I find myself waking up an extra ten minutes early so I can be still in my silent kitchen and meditate. It is why I save my fun loving attitude for the weekend and my get work done attitude for the week. Without reading this part of your trip I would have returned into my lonesome shell, but since I knew you didn’t I felt pressured to stay in the real world and not evaporate into
In case not everyone knows, being a teenager is weird. One day you see the exact path you want to take and where it will end up; the next day you’re basically Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, thrown into a different universe by a tornado of drama. Let’s just say that my sophomore year was …show more content…
I’m not very religious so I felt detached at first, wanting to go back to the fun of Italy, but I saw that you had to move on and I knew I had to as well. We both had to take some time off to take care of our minds. I would read about the ways you meditated and the friends you made in the Ashram. It was so amazing to read from your point of view and feel as if I was in the Ashram working hard with you. I began to work on the rest of my summer homework and I mean really get to work. I woke up early and sat on my porch feeling the sun burn against my legs and arms, just sat there and focused on my breathing. In the few days it took me to read that leg of your trip, I became more calm and focused on my mental health. I found out more about me than I had known in sixteen years. Still five months later, I find myself waking up early and meditating, whether it is taking five minutes of calmness throughout my busy day, or just focusing on my breathing. In your India trip you learned how to listen to yourself and become one physically and mentally with your spirit and I did …show more content…
I couldn’t relate to this particular section at the time because I was still drifting around on that inner tube that is summer break. But a month later once school began, I found myself falling into the deep dark hole that was sophomore year again. I reflected on the Indonesian part of your trip and how it took you a little bit to learn to balance your life, but you did it and I knew I could too. This is why I find myself waking up an extra ten minutes early so I can be still in my silent kitchen and meditate. It is why I save my fun loving attitude for the weekend and my get work done attitude for the week. Without reading this part of your trip I would have returned into my lonesome shell, but since I knew you didn’t I felt pressured to stay in the real world and not evaporate into