When the fire of life goes out
You may anticipate the storyline of this book but you never can imagine what would you feel by reading it. That was talking to me. When I first saw the flyer of this book, I just thought it is just one of those very same self-healing and self-justification book which doesn't worth reading. But just like Mrs Elm had said in the book, "you should live it", which to me it sounds like you should read it and never try to judge it by its cover.
Well in some part, I just can't help me from crying since I've been through what Nora had been through. I'm not exactly the slider, but I had my hard times too and spent lot of my time floundering in regrets imagining the things that I could have done and could have become. But after those suffocating times, I finally found my answers though still far from perfect but help me feeling better of myself and focus more on life am I living. It helped me think of my life would become in the future while my feet are still holding the ground.
So this is why I don't regret that much these days (comparing to my past). I finally kind of have succeeded in embracing my own life as it is, and kind of stopped mourning for what I didn't have or didn't become. But still this kind of book somehow touches my heart. Maybe that is because my book of regrets is not burnt out wholly. Though I have my life. I can't imagine other life that is not THIS version of my life. Maybe this state of me is what is called life. Maybe.