So far away | A book review on " Before we were strangers " by Reneé Carlino

Based on a free-hand sketch by Ali Khaled

Borrowed air flew like an uninvited guest

Either mine stayed nor hers are left

Faces suffocating, blurring the best

Oval face, pink cheeks. Sun-kissed

Reality broke in, A fear we can't resist

Earth evolves the sun, mine stopped to test

WilI I choose her, A future better than the rest

Either her love or mine, two never fit the nest

Warriors are either born or made

Eagles are different kinds and shade

Reign my life, I am not afraid

Either choice hard to bait

So, you love her enough to put a metal gun?

Towards your temple, like a sacred nun

Ready to give up the career you never begun

Always asking if love worths the run?

Now you choose, it's almost done

Gone with the wind, years after love. No fun

Reality broke in, love already won

Seconds in love, happier than a career in a ton

To art we shall surrender...to love we shall survive.

So far away from home. A book review that might help you figure your life out.

Would you stay if I asked you to?

Would you sacrifice your dreams for the one you love? If you have a choice to take, would you choose a future with the one you love or a future with the career you've always wanted?

1) How do I choose?

Grace and Matt. The main characters in the book. From the first few lines in it, you might think it's like a normal cheesy book about love lost and found. 

And it is. The trick here isn't the main idea of the book. But the possibility and the choice. The lesson you learn. The print this book leaves in you.

If you have a choice to make? Would it be a success or a love?? Would you choose to be high from love or respected in a career?? I am sure you always asked yourself this question. Worried nonsense if your partner worths the sacrifice. But still, you never got your answer. Still in a loop. Keep reading you might find it here after all.

2) Choose A home:

Still waiting for an answer. Listen up.

Get a girl who can share a joint with!

That's a line I kept thinking and rethinking all the time while reading. Grace wasn't the perfect lady in the world, she had her fair share of fu*ked up life, however, Matt loved her. He saw her more than appearances fake etiquette. He saw her as a home.

To love someone isn't about finding a funny partner or an easy-to-talk or understanding one. It's all about the comfort zone. That tight little space that you wrap around yourself. 

Well, Imagine that space is a whole person. With hopes and dreams, smiles and laughter. 

A flesh and blood. Wouldn't you fall in love?

I would have. If I found the safety of a book in a person. The escapism of a joint in a person. The beauty of art in a person. The sweetness of a pineapple in a person.

We spend our whole lives looking for love when what we should be looking in the first place is comfort. Safety. Home.

If you found a home in a person. pull him into your arms. Lock him up in a distant tower, cause no amount of money or promotions can give you the happiness you would feel with that person.

3) Career wins, sometimes:

Some people are like music. You love them, you love yourself with them, they become your comfort zone, those small peaks of heaven you lust. But if they become too close or the music turned too loud, it becomes defeating, you distaste their headache, put your hands on your ears and lust for their silence.

I am talking about routine. When you get used to someone's presence that his voice doesn't give you goosebumps like before. He doesn't amaze you like he used to be. You start to wonder if he has changed or the fog of fake love and worship has dissolved. 

If that so, choose a career to build up your life. Don't lose both. Cause man that spark of love is gonna put down, sooner or later.

4) Faith in love:

What is faith if it didn't endure? 

Page 69 

Love is cruel.  It takes more than gives. Your sole existence becomes dependent on the existence of your beloved. Every breath you catch is a result of his breath divided by 2. You get what's left of air around him.

And if there's no him. There's no air. There's no you.

So, what is faith if not meant to endure the cruelty of love? The pain of loss? 

What is love if it doesn't give us hope?

5) Last but never least: 

Happiness is a life full of love and success. whether you choose to take a step towards career before love or love before career. Life is both, where variety determines our choices those who felt disliked choose love and those who felt like losers choose a career and between great and not so great choices lie the ugly souls who hurt us and left a dark print in our lives.

A print we felt obligated to erase with wrong choices.

So, you feel interested in the book, gonna read it? Yes. No. It's ok, cause it was never about a book, paper or words. It's all about being adventurous, fearless and proud. Its all about the experiences we get from books. 

Books are Journeys. As well as my reviews. I don't review the characters, the flow, the writing style or the script. 

I review me after reading the book.

Keep reading, you are worth it, books are worth it.

This is my Review of the Month for the review collection on LovelyAudiobooks.info