For the past 4 years I’ve been in relationships in which I gave myself up for her, and forgot my own life. Lost love for myself, lost sight of who I am and what I enjoy, and I don’t know how to find myself again… so I’m guessing a great book would be a good start.
I know how broad this is, and I’m probably asking for the only book someone would ever need, but I want one that can help me feel like a more complete person, that gives me some sort of mental stability on who I am and maybe some knowledge about the world to make me a more interesting and creative person in general.
You might ask “why just one book?”, well, I’m not an avid reader. I was never really a fan of reading, but after the breakup I started to do so, and noticed some benefits in my mental clarity that I didn’t feel before. But here’s the thing, due to that lack of practice I take weeks, sometimes months to finish a book, so thats why I’m not looking for more than one right now.
by Edu_Vivan
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This may be a cliche rec but in case you havent read it yet…
Try out Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet. It’s just under 100 pages of poetic prose that’s heavily margined. Not exactly a ‘self-help’ sort of book where the writer expresses their outlook on something in a conversational way. It rather covers a range of human subjects with much more spiritual perspective through a minimal fictional setting.
It opened me up to a completely different sense of love and relationships (not exclusive to romance), one that allowed me to accept the difficulties being human and move through my life with a better sense of self. I revisit it often since I first read it almost 20 years ago, and am continually gifted by its insights.