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Ruin is the road to transformation
Over the weekend I decided to go through my DVD collection. I found a DVD movie I haven’t watched in years.
It’s called Eat, Pray, Love
It’s based on the true story of Elizabeth Gilbert. A woman who lives in New York with her husband has a successful job and status. But she’s not happy in her life.
She decides that she’s going to make a change in her life. She spends a year traveling. First going to Italy, then India, then finishing off the year in Bali.
It’s through this journey she finds herself, after going through the day to day motions of everyday life she decides to transform.
She immerses herself in learning Italian and indulges in their lifestyle and culture and comes across people in her journey on really the same path as her. She struggles with forgiving herself, and I myself realize so do I.
How do I forgive myself?
While we may not all be able to afford to pack up our lives and travel for a year I do understand the desire to take that fall into transformation. Usually, if our lives are cruisey and we’re happy with how things are we tend not to take that leap into transformation. Something happens to us to make us do it. She decides she’s going to travel and write a book. And based on the advancement pay she got from her…
