thanks for the memories....

this is the title of the book that i'm reading currently....its by the same author whose debut was 'P.S. I love u'..Cecilia Ahern...like one of the reviews says, her books have an element of magic in them...a mystic sense of outofthisworld fantasy...n loads of plain vanilla innocence n wonder....
In this post, i'm listing down some of the thoughts / philosophies that one of the characters conveys in a very simple, ordinary form...or in a metaphoric manner..

Here goes -

1. 'This is all u do When it all slows down n d minutes that tick by feel a little longer than before, .......you take yr time....you breathe slowly, you open yr eyes wider n look at EVERYTHING. Take it all in... Stop and notice little things....Find out d answers to yday's crosswords. Stop trying to do everything NOW...NOW...NOW...Dont let nybody dictate yr speed...'

2. ....'like a garden, Everything grows. Including Love....Everything builds....including our ability to cope with it. Thats how we keep going'.

3. 'in my day, something JUST WAS. None of this analysis a hundred times over...no whys n hows n becauses all the time...sometimes, you need to forget all these words, n just learn to say ''thank you''.

4. During tough times, ' what was once clear becums cloudy, n wat was once considered bizarre becums a possibility...but its precisely when u're in trouble, u look harder for answers than those who arent, and those answers help u thru...'

5. When we laugh so hard dat we cry, its tells us 'how close happiness n sadness are. ...how a moment of lovecan be quickly snapped into hate....how love and war stand on the same foundations. How in our darkest moments, most fearful tyms, when faced, become our bravest.
They all border one another, these opposites...how similar emotions are!'

What i loved abt d above 5 gems are dat they're woven into the story narrative so brilliantly...no preachings...just plain simple truths of life...! :)