In My Shoes

An Impactful Book on Life & Living

I am forever fascinated by this thing called ‘love’. What is it? Something so intangible, yet it is something most of us feel so often and so strongly. Be it for family, for partners, for friends, pets, material goods. We sometimes speak of love as if we understand it, as if it is the very meaning of our existence. Perhaps so. But ever so often, the meaning of love is misconstrued and interpreted in the way we want it to be that is most beneficial in our own context. 

“… the experience of falling in love is invariably temporary. No matter whom we fall in love with, we sooner or later fall out of love if the relationship continues long enough. This is not to say that we invariably cease loving the person with whom we fell in love. But it is to say that the feeling of ecstatic lovingness that characterises the experience of falling in love always passes. The honemoon always ends. The bloom of romance always fades.” – Chapter on ‘Falling in ‘Love’‘

The Road Less Travelled - M. Scott Peck

I have an old book which I pick up now and then. There are many quotable quotes, but I thought I’d just give one today.

The book is separated into four major parts – discipline, love, growth & religion and grace. It’s written by a psychiatrist who depicts life and its major issues with examples from his patients. In no way did I intend to pick this book up again just because I’m in the midst of my Psychiatry rotation, in fact I had forgotten that it was written by a psychiatrist. But I pick it up and read it now and then when I feel I need to re-examine the way I live, the way I behave and how I treat others. I am reminded of about discipline, of independence, of responsibility, of love and growth. And as always, I am reminded of simple facts which you don’t instinctively think about, but really ring true when you give some thought to it.