{"id":595,"date":"2017-12-22T09:21:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T03:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lensq.com\/?p=595"},"modified":"2017-12-22T09:21:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T03:51:16","slug":"tiny-beautiful-things-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lensq.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/22\/tiny-beautiful-things-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Beautiful things – Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author<\/strong> : Cheryl Strayed<\/p>\n

After my best friend moved to another city, I acted as if everything was normal. \u201cIt has nothing to do with my daily life\u201d I thought. But I came to terms with my reality after reading this book. It is okay to miss people whose company you enjoyed. The way Cheryl speaks is as healing as my friend did. I was missing the conversations I had with my friend. How I used to find them healing and empowering all at the same time just like Cheryl\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n

After reading Tiny Beautiful things, I felt very lucky and blessed in life. I did not have to go through all the miserable things the people who wrote letters to Cheryl went through. Yet in her replies, there were words which touched me somewhere deep. They gave me answers to the questions which had been lingering in my mind for quite a long time. Her writing is very beautiful. I felt that my pain had been empathized. Her words are so healing and powerful. This is no doubt one of the books you need to read once in a lifetime.<\/span><\/p>\n

I learnt that you don\u2019t have to be a therapist or psychologist to heal another person. You just have to know what life is all about. The ups and the lows. The beautiful and the ugly things. What to say and what not to. You just have to know what pain is and should have survived it. Only then you will be able to heal others.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her writing is similar to Dushka Zapata<\/a>, the writer I came across on Quora. I felt happy to discover Cheryl as another writer who can make me feel the same way as Dushka does. Even though Cheryl has been there since a very long time, I discovered her very late. But I am still happy to read her book.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just like every other book I fell in love with, \u00a0this book also came to me at the right time. I initially got this book some time in April, but the reading the starting few pages made me felt that the book was not for me. But after looking at this book as a recommendation by few other writers, I was tempted to read it a little more to confirm if it is meant for me or not. Lucky me, I read it.<\/span><\/p>\n

This book might not be for people who are cold and have no emotions. But if you are a warm person who loves reading personal stories and understanding human emotions, read it right away. You will regret neither the time nor the money you spend on it. I think reading this book was the best thing I have done in these holidays.<\/span><\/p>\n

A few lines from the Tiny Beautiful things<\/span><\/h2>\n

For those who want to know what love is:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Love is the feeling we have for those we care deeply about and hold in high regard. It can be light as the hug we give a friend or heavy as the sacrifices we make for our children. It can be romantic, platonic, familial, fleeting, everlasting, conditional, unconditional, imbued with sorrow, stoked by sex, sullied by abuse, amplified by kindness, twisted by betrayal, deepened by time, darkened by difficulty, leavened by generosity, nourished by humor, and \u201cloaded with promises and commitments\u201d that we may or may not want or keep.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For a parent or to be parent:<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s devastating for a child to hear one parent speak ill of the other. In fact, so much so that the researchers found it was less psychologically damaging if a parent said directly to the child You are a worthless piece of shit than it was for a parent to say Your mother\/father is a worthless piece of shit.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For those who are on verge of break-up<\/strong><\/p>\n

You aren\u2019t torn. You\u2019re only just afraid. You no longer wish to be in a relationship with your lover even though he\u2019s a great guy. Fear of being alone is not a good reason to stay. Leaving this man you\u2019ve been with for six years won\u2019t be easy, but you\u2019ll be okay and so will he. The end of your relationship with him will likely also mark the end of an era of your life. In moving into this next era there are going to be things you lose and things you gain.Trust yourself. It\u2019s Sugar\u2019s golden rule. Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For those dealing with fear<\/strong><\/p>\n

It will also be a little bit scary, the way it always is when we\u2019re brave enough to touch the rawest, realest truths. When we have the guts to look directly into the mirror and say Mary Worth thirteen times without pause and see\u2014thrillingly, terrifyingly\u2014that it was never her we had to fear.\u00a0<\/span>It was always only us.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For those who want to pursue passion<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to go. It\u2019s scary and lonely and your bandmates will have a fit and half the time you\u2019ll be wondering why the hell you\u2019re in Cincinnati or Austin or North Dakota or Mongolia or wherever your melodious little finger-plucking heinie takes you. There will be boondoggles and discombobulated days, freaked-out nights and metaphorical flat tires.\u00a0<\/span>But it will be soul-smashingly beautiful, Solo. It will open up your life.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For those who are repenting mistakes<\/strong><\/p>\n

That life is long, that people both change and remain the same, that every last one of us will need to fuck up and be forgiven, that we\u2019re all just walking and walking and walking and trying to find our way, that all roads lead eventually to the mountaintop.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For women<\/strong><\/p>\n

Doing what one wants to do because one wants to do it is hard for a lot of people, but I think it\u2019s particularly hard for women.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She has something for everyone. Sweet advice. Not so sweet advice. Tough ones. But ultimately right ones.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks Cheryl for the \u2018Tiny beautiful things\u2019. It was definitely beautiful reading it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What book moved you? Share it with us in the comments section.<\/p>\n

Happy knowing Tiny Beautiful things!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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