Field Guide to the Haunted Forest by Jarod K Anderson
It is a poetry collection. If you see life as something you can be behind in at all, I recommend poetry.
Forsythia
As forsythia grows tall,
its branches bend beneath their own weight,
bowing to the ground in arches of yellow flowers.
Wherever they touch the earth,
the branches root again and send up new shoots,
stitching gold across the landscape.
Some new kinds of knowledge shift our center of gravity,
staggering us,
bending us low beneath the burden.
If you think of your worldview as a stone tower,
this shift is a cataclysm of splintered rock.
If your worldview is forsythia,
then every startling truth that bends you low becomes a new connection to the earth,
a new way to stand,
an invitation to grow.
We live in a time of strong wind and sudden pressure.
It is not an age for towers.
It’s an age for stubborn flowers.
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Trust me, very few people have life figured out in their twenties.
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
And, this book gets a lot of hate on Reddit, but I’d recommend The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
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Field Guide to the Haunted Forest by Jarod K Anderson
It is a poetry collection. If you see life as something you can be behind in at all, I recommend poetry.
Forsythia
As forsythia grows tall,
its branches bend beneath their own weight,
bowing to the ground in arches of yellow flowers.
Wherever they touch the earth,
the branches root again and send up new shoots,
stitching gold across the landscape.
Some new kinds of knowledge shift our center of gravity,
staggering us,
bending us low beneath the burden.
If you think of your worldview as a stone tower,
this shift is a cataclysm of splintered rock.
If your worldview is forsythia,
then every startling truth that bends you low becomes a new connection to the earth,
a new way to stand,
an invitation to grow.
We live in a time of strong wind and sudden pressure.
It is not an age for towers.
It’s an age for stubborn flowers.
Trust me, very few people have life figured out in their twenties.
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
And, this book gets a lot of hate on Reddit, but I’d recommend The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
Also, The River Why by David James Duncan.