Eat Pray Love

I went on a date night last night with one of my best friends Corrine to see the movie Eat Pray Love. This was a movie I was really looking forward to as I read the book in Thailand earlier this year and fell in love with it, I then passed it on to Corrine and she loved it just as much.
For anyone who hasn’t read Eat Pray Love we follow Liz Gilbert on her journey of discovering herself after a painful divorce. She decides to spend 4 months in Italy to eat, 4 months in India in a ashram to prey and she finally ends up in Bali were she unexpectedly find love.

I really enjoyed the movie but it didn’t delve into the complexity of the book as it would have been a very long movie trying to get all the information without turning it into a movie longer than titanic but a great film to watch all the same.

Now I don’t find many books that make me stop and think about my life but this one certainly did and there is 2 points in this book that really helped me. There is one conversation so specific that rang true for me that made me think that when I wanted to start losing weight that I wasn’t going to take it so serious that would have me going down another path of binge eating and so on. Liz and her friend are sitting eating pizza’s in Naples and her friend says “Liz I can’t eat this I have put on 10 pounds since I have been in Italy and I can’t fit into my jeans” Liz promptly responds with when you have taken your clothes of in front of a man has he ever walked out” Her friend responses “no” exactly says Liz the guy is so stoked that there is a naked beautiful lady in front of them they don’t care about a measly 10 pounds on your hips. So we’ll enjoy this pizza and we’ll go buy ourselves a pair of jeans in the next size up. Now I have to say Joe has never balked at me in with no clothes on and I doubt he ever would (If he knows what’s good for him)

Secondly there Liz talks about having a hunger for life and for work. I was in a dreadful working situation when I was in Thailand, my work was one of those places that had a rotating door and people were constantly coming and going there was nearly 100% staff turnover while I was there I went away wondering if I would have a job when I got back. I hated this work place and hated everything it represents with is such a hard thing to say about a not for profit company. I also was in a little bit of a rut in my personal life, I was newly engaged (this isn’t the rut part) but I became wary that marriage would change my relationship with Joe and I. I have had a fair few friends that have had amazing relationships but when they got married everything changed. So this prompted 2 very big things in my life, firstly a conversation about my life with Joe and how we were going to make a marriage work. Secondly I made the decision I to leave my job, this was a little bit of a no brainer but I felt it was time to really sink my teeth into something I would love. I knocked back a fair few job for various reasons one being money it wasn’t until I had a job description put in front of that actually felt worth wild doing and working for one of the largest companies worldwide.

I highly recommend this book for someone who needs a little soul searching or just a bit of plain inspiration for their life. It’s a great read and had a huge impact on my life and hopefully it will on your after reading it.