Life as we know it

Of late, many things have been bringing home to me, the fact that the world will not wait. It will not wait while I mourn, while I make up my mind, while I drag my feet. It just has so much going, it can't afford to stop for puny little me to get back on board. This realization upsets me. Mildly.

Mostly, it motivates me to move, reminding me that now's the time to live, laugh, love and everything else I've been putting on the back burner. That said, I don't know any book quotes but am here to tell you that books are the ish. Why? Ama break it down for you. I know some one who's twice my age. The other day, I think out of desperation, she let rip about the state of her relationship with the love of her life. She wasn't happy and she had totally run out of ideas on how to make it work. Now, any one who knows me, knows that I've never been in anything that can even loosely be termed as a relationship. But she didn't know me that well so she had no misgivings about telling me. Anti you know how I be so mature and what not.

So here she is, telling me all these things and all I can do is tell her about the things I've read. So our conversation went something like this;

Her: I just wish he'd call me for no good reason. Just once!

Me: I read somewhere that men are not psychics. You have to tell them what you want.

Her: But why can't he do, for me, the things I do for him?!

Me: A guy called Steve Harvey wrote a book that said.....

Her: He doesn't even tell me his problems

Me: In Men are from Mars...

... and so on. Somehow, she stuck around for an entire hour and left with a new, improved and standardized action plan. And I felt powerful. So believe me when I say, Books are the ish.

Ah. Found it. Here goes...

"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you."

-Mortimer Adler (author)