This book changed my lifeThe Goat writes, "Some books have made a huge impact on my life." It's true. It wasn't until the b3ta mods read the Flashman novels that we changed from mild-mannered computer operators into heavily-whiskered copulators, poltroons and all round bastards in a well-known cavalry regiment.
What books have changed the way you think, the way you live, or just gave you a rollicking good time?
Friendly hint: A bit of background rather than just a bunch of book titles would make your stories more readable
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chthonic, Thu 15 May 2008, 15:11)
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I didn't realise at the time.....When I was in my 20s I went through a break up with a girl I was very keen on. Really, it hadn't been a long relationship, and certainly nothing unusual about one person not being into it as much as the other, but it wasn't a nice experience.
However, my reaction to this sad event was utterly disproportionate to the event itself, and I found myself absolutely paralysed by it - totally crushed, totally destroyed. And for someone who was never a especially volatile emotionally, it was a scary time.
Then a friend of mine leant me a book about grief. It was probably called Grief or something obvious like that, and it was a short book dealing with the different stages of grief (what happens, why it happens, why you shouldn't ignore it, why it will resolve etc).
Anyhow, it turned out to be a book that turned on a huge lightbulb in my mind and I realised something way more profound was going on:
When I was about 11, my dad died. At the time our stiff upper lip family had dealt with it the only way we knew how, and had buttoned everything up. And as a result I had what I would (badly) describe as a big chunk of frozen grief about it inside me. I haven't the foggiest idea about what exactly happened, but somehow through this trivial break-up with this girl it all got defrosted, and in a funny way I was really grieving about my dad.
It turned out to be about the most emotionally healthy things that's ever happened to me and ever since then I've stopped being one of God's Frozen People.
I wish I could remember the book title, though.
If anyone can help me understand any more about this please send me a message. I think it's real but don't know how to start explaining it.
(, Thu 15 May 2008, 21:40, 1 reply)
It soundslike something I could be doing with right around now.
Probably a lot more helpful than the Paul McKenna book I bought whilst drunk. But to be fair, I still havent really read that yet, so maybe it will turn me into a new person :P
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baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Thu 15 May 2008, 22:22,
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