I borrowed this book from last year's school book rafting activity. With the coming of winter and spring, my progress slowly began. In the middle, I have experienced all kinds of confused emotions, such as examination, loss, happiness, madness, etc. Finally, I finished reading the book at 21:17 on May 10, 2024. From physical books to e-books, from mobile phones to computers, I can only read it through multiple platforms. Compared with the reading masters in the blog, my speed is far behind. However, the result was good, and I finished reading it after all.
"Dear, there is no one else outside, all external things are the result of your internal projection." I want to meet the unknown self, which is my original intention of reading. I don't want to be trapped in the current corner of my mind. I hope I can be as free as the wind. In the book, a woman with an unhappy marriage and a depressed job meets an old man who takes her to look for her unknown self. With the guidance and help of the old man, she re-examines her heart, looks for her true self, and gets a way to fight against life, perhaps finding a way to be self consistent.
According to the title of the book, it seems that many people think it is chicken soup for the soul. I have always disliked the word "chicken soup for the soul". In my opinion, this book is not chicken soup for the soul, but a growth book that helps cognition. The author of the book is a person who has had various experiences. At the end of the reprint of the book, in A Letter to Readers, the author introduced his life path. In the eyes of outsiders, Taiwan news anchors, top students from Taiwan University, young and beautiful, famous cars and luxury houses, and famous husbands. She just looked at herself in the mirror. She was not happy at all. After divorce and living in Beijing, she had a new job and family, and two children, a man and a woman. After working in a well-known international company in Singapore, when all the fame and fortune came, all the results ended in depression. That year was 2002. She quit her job, read a lot of spiritual books, and when she found that the contents of the books could not help in the face of great challenges, she began to realize the meaning of the sentence "you create your own reality". In 2012, it took the author 10 years from depression to cure her.
After reading the letter from the author to the reader, I found that Ruolin, who is divorced in the book, is the reflection of the author himself, and the old man in the book is the truth and nature she found. When facing a downturn, what can individuals do to alleviate the depression and despair brought by the downturn, and then fight back? I recalled the low point of my life, the article was rejected, graduation was far away, and the big essay party needed to be overhauled. At the beginning, I always evaded, blaming the reviewer's stupidity, the tutor's incomprehension, and always looking for reasons from the outside. Although these objective factors are important, if we need to go out, we must overcome these problems, find solutions, and seek possible help. At that time, I was like a drowning man, desperately trying to catch a straw to save lives. But when I thought it was just a delay, I felt relieved again.
According to the Internet, I didn't wear a red scarf when I was a child. When I stood at the school gate, I felt that the sky was falling. As far as I am concerned, there are several times in my life when the sky collapses. When the director of the education office slapped, punched and kicked, and stood under the podium when he first smoked and fought in junior high school, maybe he was more angry at that time. When I smoked in high school, I was asked to go home for three days and write a guarantee. When you fail in the college entrance examination, you feel there is no future in your life. When I volunteer to give up the second round of the postgraduate entrance examination, I will be very worried that I will have no books to read. It seems that every time I live in pain and suffering, and every night I toss and turn will usher in the dawn. Looking at this book, I don't want to retell what kind of story it tells, nor do I want to remember those complicated psychological words. Through the stories in the book, you can experience the current mood and find the unknown yourself. This may be what this book brings to me.
In addition to Meet the Unknown Self, the author's other three works. Meet Who You Want to Be, Live a New Yourself, Meet Who You Don't Know Again, wait until next time! Finally, in the words of the author, I wish myself every success.
To dear you: God gives you what you want. This is the real dream—— redfin
