While reading this book, I'm struck by the selfishness and lack of commitment from this woman of privilege.
I can't relate to her willingness to sacrifice the most important relationships in life for yet more romps and paid vacations of temporary happiness.
How can you "find yourself "at the expense of hard working people in other countries, people who have to prepare the food you eat and wash your dirty dishes. What you find is your stunted, adolescent self, not an adult.
All that said, her writing is excellent and you can't help but enjoy the book.
Such transparency is risky but makes the book "real", it also reveals our insides and makes us vulnerable to others and hopefully exposes our true motives.
It is certainly a cheap vicarous vacation for the reader.
As an ESL teacher I appreciate her love and discipline to learn a foreign lanuguage.
In the end we all have to grow up, wash the dishes, spend ourselves for others, and learn to make God our steering wheel instead of our spare tire.
"You will know the truth and the truth will set you free" Free of self?
Monday, February 28, 2011
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