Five Wishes by Gay Hendricks
My christmas stocking included these 160 pages of inspiration. With the justification that it was only a small book, I even started it whilst halfway through another read (something I try to avoid.) By the end of page 15 I already felt like this book was handcrafted for my eyes, it's message sent to remind me of something overlooked. Page 101 brought quiet sobs of realisation, and an hour after I had settled down to the first page, I was clicking through the website and scribbling away at my 5 wishes.
The story-proper starts with a chance meeting at a party, and in the avoidance of small talk, out pops one of those profound self-probing Questions. Denied the option of stalling on the answer because "The bigger the question, the more important it is to answer it right now", the author leads us through the tale of his inescapable answers.
At times I found myself rolling out the "That's all very well, but Life doesn't always play along!" ...such a retaliation from the cynical-self is the exact hurdle The Question is set to flatten.
The Te of Piglet the half-read book set back in this ones shadow, which had aptly left echos in my mind... "It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal" ...it is. But something about this very simple Question, and defining your own 5 wishes, makes it all seem somewhat more achievable.
Five Wishes asks the question that we all unconsciously fixate on but never really spend any honest time working through. Really, we all have two choices. We can continue to be unhappy and bitter about all the things we don't have or we can gather the courage to make our lives resemble the life we had hoped to lead. What's your choice? - Dr. T. Brady
2 comments:
Sounds like an interesting book. But can you trust anyone who says there are only two options for anything?
Good point - but the author doesn't put it like that... That's just the view of a woman who reviewed it on Amazon ;D
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