Kristin Hannah created a piece with such powerful emotions in the midst of a woman's frustrating dilemma. A lot of people can relate, especially married women, and not excluding young ones with big dreams. This book inspires us to, first and above all, know what we really want to do with our lives. There are lots of things we see along the way, around us, all over us, and it seems like every one of them is so interesting and worth our entire attention for the rest of our lives. But we only got one shot of this life and we have to choose well. Multi-tasking is a talent, just for me because I can't do it well, but it's different when you multi-task your own life. It would be as if you'r not living your own at all because you don't even know which one is it. I didn't mean that we have to be one-sighted, though, life is so vast and the things we see are so diverse we cannot even focus to one. That's what I'm saying about. Yes, life has a lot to offer and seems like a lifetime is not enough. But you know what they say about having priorities. We can have a little of everything that life has to offer but we have to figure out what we really want. Otherwise, we just live each day waiting for our time to end. Empty. We don't like to end up uttering three famous words, "shoulda, woulda, coulda", and shaking our heads side to side. Above all, we must find ourselves and our wants first before other people's. I must say, it's not bad to give up our own happiness for the sake of someone else's, especially if it's a loved one, yes, sacrifice is a virtue, but it's not good to live in misery for the rest of our lives just because of our actions, either. We have to let ourselves speak and be heard; let that someone understand. Now I know this is where most arguments emerge. But we have to learn to argue without getting offended. According to my favorite priest, "Nothing good comes easy." Indeed. Even a simple talk is quite difficult to achieve without the other party getting offended and walks out of the room. Respect is the key. It has always been, and will always be.
Well, anyway, about the characters in the book, I kind of don't like the attitude of our heroine, Elizabeth Shore. She knows what she wants, but she just keeps it in, afraid of something, maybe of her husband not being happy if she pursues her passion. In the contrary, she said that her husband is so busy finding his old self back and his happiness that he didn't bother to ask what she wanted to do, when in fact, her husband wanted her to talk and speak out, but she disengaged. I salute to her husband. He knows what he wants, goes for it, and still has time to do a little effort, little but still an effort, to talk to his wife about what she wants. Not to mention that he's fighting back the ghost of his not-so-nice past slowly coming back to him. Although he failed one, I considered it not counted. Maybe you'll agree with me if you read the book. He's a good man. It's just this wife of his that is in a serious dilemma of her own and now she's frustrated.
But in the end, I'm happy for Elizabeth, everything turned out well- for her andfor her husband, as well. Bottomline: Life doesn't slows down even if people's bodies get drowsy. And, age is just a digit. There is never "too late" for someone who knows how to use his time and there is no "wrong path" for someone who walks well.
