Just recently I celebrated my 30th Birthday… no big bash surprise party like most would expect. The day before, my family had held a dinner and once again I learned why I should not indulge in (Americanized) Chinese food. On my birthdate, I had a surprisingly quiet day. Got up for the family breakfast, drove my brother home and proceeded back to Waterloo. What happened next could have been the best and sanest possible way to spend a 30th Birthday… I spent it contemplating my mortality…

…that’s not to say that I hadn’t thought about it before. Having been less than well growing up, it had certainly crossed my mind, but it was only just recently (within the last 5 years) that I’d been contemplated what that meant & started to formulate what I should be doing about it. I’d decided that meant seeking happiness and satisfaction. Of course that hasn’t exactly become materially rewarding as of yet, but it certainly has been a voyage of discovery. I’ve travelled farther, met more diverse and interesting people and I’ve grown my definition of who I am and what I want to achieve out of life.

A few weeks ago, a professor had suggested the book mentionned in the title of this entry (and shown right). He had suggested that it might just speak to me and might serve as an affirmation that I was on the right path. I bought the audio book (downloaded from i-tunes for about $9). I’m not normally an audio book kind of girl, but I’ve had so much reading to get to this term that my eyes are practically bleeding and my brain is no longer processing information via the optic nerves *g*… but I digress… I spent the majority of my Birthday flat on my back, lights out and audio book on and boy oh boy did I learn something and it certainly helped to hear it in the voice of the author, a former minister who’s been there, done it and bought the t-shirt several times over. I don’t think I’d do the book any justice to elaborate further as I’m still processing a lot of the information and it is very much one of those books that speaks to different people in different ways, but I would suggest this one is worth a read.