This book is
about travel and relationships that can be divided into three parts. I am
reading the first part when the writer was in Italy. Before she went to Italy,
she just got divorced with her husband. She was depressed and her life was a
mess. But this story doesn’t start with that terrible situation, it starts with
her new life in Italy. Everything seems good at the beginning of this story.
She wrote about what she saw and what she had been doing in Italy. Then she
started bringing her negative emotion that came from her past experience. She
kept thinking about the things that happened in the past even though she
decided to keep her life going. For example, she thought about three years ago,
she was on the bathroom floor trying to ask for help painfully from God because
she didn’t know what to do with her marriage.
The most memorable thing for me in this part is
when the writer went to Augustus’s mausoleum, she wrote about how this place
looked like, which was chaotic, because it has been adapted, burned and
pillaged, then found a way to build itself back up again. She realized that her
life has not been so chaotic. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to
transformation. I think this scene is important in this story. She learned to
accept the past and keep going.
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