"I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism." - Elizabeth Gilbert
This summer, I read the book, "Eat, Pray, Love" and was inspired. So much of what Elizabeth goes through in this book I have felt in my own heart. That realization that the perfect marriage and life wasn't where she was supposed to be, the falling for this random man in her life who was all she could think of, but so wrong for her and the longing to rediscover herself so she could move on to a greater life and purpose.
Unfortunately, I can't take a year of my life off to travel to Italy, India and Bali... but I'm determined to find my own path. First things first, shed the bad, the ugly, the energy sapping world around me for something better.
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