A fantastic surprise: Notes to myself

             It was just a normal Saturday morning, woke up a bit late. Was busy in doing some assignment.Then in the afternoon , I decided to go to the lab. I was just going out and saw a packet on the shoe rack. It was a parcel for me from anonymous. I was excited. अरे वा पार्सल!!! ते पण निनावी!!! (भावना मराठीत नीट व्यक्त होतात ना!!) I opened it and when I saw what it was, I almost jumped!! खरतर उडीच मारली..There was something, I always wanted, something I had forgotten about, something a friend of mine had suggested as a "must read"..So without creating more suspense, let me say what it was..There was this book called "Notes to myself: My struggle to become a person"

            I could not believe that, this person actually shipped it to me!!I was speechless. डोळे भरून आले अचानक..I don't even want to say Thank you because the gesture is much more than that..And I am sure, my thanks won't be accepted..Then I had to leave to the lab, but could not thinking about the book! From the lab I went to gym and started reading it while I was on the treadmill. Time passed and I did not understand.. I was reading the book, sometimes I had to pause my reading and think about it.I finished 50-60% of the book before I realized that it has been a long time!!(trust me it was "LONG" time)..Now I understand why the phrase 'time flows' is used..

            I feel this book is something you can not read at a stretch. Because every note has a lot many things to say.And the best part is you can read this book as many times as you feel like because every time you are surely will get something different..

            The book is written by Hugh Prather..Its not a book in traditional sense, as there is no flow or story..There are short notes. Entirely different from each other. The author describes it very well.He says it was essentially a stack of yellow sheets where  I went to sort things out, where I put down my pains and problems and my very deep longing to break through some truth.

             I am yet to finish the book, but I will just put a note for you.There is nothing called the best note amongst all, because every note has something very deep to offer. So here are a couple of notes, so that you all start reading it.

            "Now that I know I'm no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?"

            "The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now.And the pot never turns out to be quite what I expected"

            "Today I don't want to live for, I want to live"