September 6, 2010
Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love
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Abstract
The famed author of The Last American Man makes an attractive, heart-to-heart, and facile account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure and spiritual commitment.
In the meantime she had her thirty birthday, Elizabeth Gilbert had everything a stylish, well-educated, aspiring American woman was expected to require: a spouse, a dwelling in the country, a successful career. But instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed with panic, grief and muddiness. She went through a separation, a crushing depression, new love and the absolute eradication of idea of life she had ever had.
To stand up from all that mess, Gilbert took a revolutionary step. In order to give herself the time and space to determine who she really was and what she really wanted, she trashed of her belongings, quit her job, left her loved ones behind and undertook a year-long journey around the world, by herself. Eat, Pray, Love is the story of that year. Gilbert’s purpose was to see three places, where she could study one feature of her own nature, put against the backdrop of a culture that has traditionally done that one thing very well. In Italy, she studied the art of joy, learning to talk Italian and putting on weight with the twenty-three happiest pounds of her life. India was for the art of commitment, where, with the help of a native-born guru and an amazingly smart Texan, she embarked on four months of ascetic spiritual exploration. Finally, in Indonesia, she found her ultimate goal: balance - namely, how to somehow build a life of equilibrium between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. Looking for these answers on the island of Bali, she became the student of an elderly, MD and also fell in love in the best possible way-without any expectations.
An essay of defining yourself, Eat, Pray, Love is about what can happen when you claim responsibility for your own contentment. It is also about the surprising, which can change when a lady starts to live on her own. This is a tale certain to touch anyone who has ever woken up to the urgent need for change.