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                                                                  Italy-India-Indonesia.

e a t.p r a y.l o v e. 211-440 pages

The next morning in India, she start brooding about David, when she is in India she should be happy, but now all she can think about is her ex-boyfriend? The chattering, negative thoughts in her mind scattered. An intense, vibrating, awed silence. And then, in that regal silence, she began to meditate with God. Liz also came to India to take medication and about God also. in the Gurugita, the goddess is asking the god for the secrets of worldly fulfillment, and he is telling her. So Liz hoped that her feelings about the gurugita would change during her stay at the Ashram. But what she think was wrong, gurugita was shifted her from simple dislike to solid dread. Liz has decided to stay at the Ashram, this was not her original plan. Her original plan had been to stay here for just six weeks. She wants to travel around India to looking for God. In the search for God, you revert form what attracts you and swim toward that which id difficult. Liz wants god, So her prayers are becoming more deliberate and specific. Every morning before meditation, she kneels in the temple and talk for a few minute to God. And then to her surprise, when she is in medication, she has invited her ex-husband to join her in medication. She almost to cry when she met her husband, but quickly realized that she didn’t need to.

            Richard, her friend has taught her many things during those days in India. Before he go back to Texas he said to Liz that” find somebody new to love someday. Take the time to heal, but don’t forget to eventually share your heart with someone. Don’t make your life a monument to David or to your ex-husband.” “after all, remember what they say sometimes that best way to get over someone is to get under someone else.”  Finally one day, when she went to practice yoga, she feels that her body felt so alive and healthy. It was pure, this love that she was feeling. It was godly. She looked around the darkened valley and she could see nothing that was not God. She felt so deeply, terribly, happy. Her flight leaves India at four in the morning. She decided not to go to sleep at tall that night, but to spend the whole evening in one of the meditation caves, in prayer.

            Liz has never had less of a plan in her life than she does upon arrival in Bali. She doesn’t know where she’s going to live, or what she’s going to do. She has no friends in Indonesia. But Bali is a fairly simple place to navigate. People in Bali also can speak English very well. In the very afternoon after Liz has arrived at Bali, she suddenly on the back of a motorbike, clutching her new friend, Mario, the guy that she met at the hotel when she checked in. Liz has really a good time with Mario, he promises Liz that he will teach her Balinese meditation, find God for her in this way. Liz feels so free here in Bali. The only thing that she has to do everyday is to visits Ketut Liyer, the Balinese meditation few hours in the afternoon. Ketut is a famous Balinese meditation, that some patients have to waiting for an hour to meet Ketut. Liz like to talk with Ketut, but sometime she felt that Ketut don’t want her around, but when she ask him, he answer that he wants Liz to come everyday, he always have time for her, and Liz has to taught him English also. Liz told Ketut many things that passed through her life, and Ketut has taught her many things that she never knew before also.

            One day she met a girl, Wayan Nuriyasih, a Balinese healer. Wayan is a hands on doctor, mixing herbs and medications in her own shop. She stayed in Wayan’s shop, talking with her new best friend about her troubles. Wayan also has a trouble in life. Liz has been here only a few weeks and she feels a rather mission-accomplished sensation already.  She always keep remembering one of her guru’s teaching about happiness. She says that the people universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you’re fortunate enough. But that’s not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it. At the moment, the person she’s enjoying the most is Ketut, the old man, truly one of the happiest humans is giving Liz a full access. One night Liz and Wayan go out to pub for relaxing. She met one guy, Felipe, a guy that maybe can change her life forever. For the whole week, she keeps herself occupied having dinner almost every night with Felipe the Brazilian. Liz thinks that she has a crush on him, which hasn’t happed for a long time. And she went out with Felipe more and more. Finally Felipe and Liz, as they discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched. They spend every night together. Liz has found a new boyfriend in Bali now.  One day when she goes to vacation with Felipe, she has really good time with him, when she walk through the beach she found one empty notebook, then she open the first page of it and allowed her pencil to document it in to word” I love you, I will never leave you, I will always take care of you.” These words will be the words that will carry with her from that now on until the last day of her life.

            And now she is coming back to Gili Meno. Since she was last here. She has circled the world, settled her divorce, survived her final separation from David, learned to speak a new language. Finally she ‘s happy and healthy and balanced. And the last thing is in love with her Brazilian lover.

-The end-

e a t.p r a y.l o v e. 100-210 pages

            One day Liz met a young Australian girl. She gave her directions to the train station. She was heading up to Slovenia. When Liz heard this girl plans, she suddenly realizes that she wants to go Slovenia. And now Liz is in the Slovenia, Liz and her friend, Sofia went to eat some pizza. This pizza is so thin, doughy, strong, gummy, yummy, chewy, salt. It’s a miracle. In this happiness that Liz has when she is in Italy makes she thinks that when she return to Rome she suppose to do something about David. It’s maybe the time for Liz and David have to end their story forever. She was thinking back when she was with David, she used to think that she can’t live without this guy, this guy is her everything but now when she’s in Italy, she finds her happiness, she started to think about herself. Then Liz started to close her eyes and think about what her mother had said ten years ago. Her mother has made choices in her life, as we all must, and she is at peace with them, and how about Liz, what is her choice. She can’t imagine her life with out David, but something about her recent joy in Naples has made her certain that she not only can find happiness without David but she must. So she decided to say goodbye to David. So she writes him an e-mail. Liz feels so sad to say goodbye to David, she knows that she’s choosing her happiness over suffering, but she has to do for her happy life.

            Liz’s sister arrival in Rome a few days later helped nudge my attention away from lingering sadness over David and helped her to bring her back to speech. Her sister’s name is Catherine. Liz’s sister comes to visit Liz in Rome, in her new city. Liz and her sister had a good time together. Liz so surprised sometime to notice that her sister is a wife and a mother, but Liz is just a woman. But now she was happy to live on her own. Over the next six weeks, she travels to Bologna, Florence, Venice, Sicily, Sardinia, once more down to Naples, then over to Calabria. There are short trips. Liz was dropped out of her Italian language school. These spontaneous travel such a glorious twirl of time. She can go wherever she wants. Then Liz went to Florence, to visits her uncle. Few days later she came back to Rome for Luca Spaghetti’s birthday. Luca would want to use this birthday to celebrate an American Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is a nice holiday. Liz’s friend, Deborah has come to Rome from Philadelphia for the weekend, to celebrate the holiday with Liz. Sofia will be coming to Luca’s party also. Liz really had a good time with her friends, Liz and her friends drive out of tired, stressed out Rome late in the evening, up into the mountains. Party doesn’t end until almost dawn.

            Liz couldn’t hold out. None of her pants, couldn’t fit anymore.  She gained twenty-three pounds in her four months of Italy. So now she have to go shopping to buy her new clothes. Now Liz has only a week left here. She’s planning to go back to America for Christmas before flying to India. Its have been amazing months that she was spending in Italy. She felt a glimmer of happiness when she started to studying Italian. You were given life; it is your duty to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight. Liz came to Italy pinched and thin. She did not know yet what she deserved. But she does know that she have collected herself of late through the enjoyment of harmless pleasure.

            Now Liz has arrived in India. The first say in India, Liz went to around the India that she could go. She went to see the great Vietnamese monk, poet and peacemaker. She has learnt many things from the Vietnamese monk, that’s can teach about her life. One of her first roommates at the Ashram was a middle aged African-American devout Baptist and medication instructor from South Carolina. During Liz stay here at the Ashram, there were never more than a few hundred residents at any time. There are also some long term paid staffers at the Ashram, but most of the work here is done by the students themselves. The students here are about equally divided between Indians and Westerns. Courses are taught in both Hindi and English. For an adult that come to work in India, you must demonstrate that you are also a sensible and practical human being. They want you to come here strong because Ashram life is rigorous. Liz’s guru always say that only one thing will happen when you come to the Ashram that you will discover who you really are.

e a t.p r a y.l o v e. 51-100

Liz is not a best traveler in the world. She is bad or lazy at researching a place before travel. She is usually end up with spending a lot of time standing in the middle of the train station feeling confused, or dropping way too much money on hotels because she don't know better. Liz also has a shortage of personal coolness, which can be trouble her in travel. She has never learned how to arrange her face into that blank expression of competent invisibility that is so useful when traveling in dangerous, foreign place. When she is excited or nervous, she looked excited and nervous. Liz’s face is transparent transmitter of every thought. But still traveling is the great true love of her life. And she also has her own set of survival techniques, that she’s patient, she is a fearless eater. And she also has one talents, she can make friends with anybody.

First, Liz must settle into school, she came here to study Italian. Her classes begin today at the Leonardo da Vinci Academy of Language Studies, where she will be studying Italian five days a week, four hours a day. She has to take a test on the first day at Leonardo da Vinci, in order to be placed in the proper level of Italian class for her abilities. Liz chose to take level two, but when she takes the test, it’s quiet hard for her. But finally she can be in level two. Classes begin in the afternoon. She has realized that level two is really impossibly hard. The teachers, is going way too fast, skipping over whole chapters of the textbook. Just as soon as the break comes, she ran out of that classroom and scurry all the way over to the administration, then she beg in very clear English if they could please move her down to level one class.

Depression and Loneliness track Liz down after about ten days in Italy. They come upon Liz all silent and menacing, depression on her left, and loneliness on her right. She’s hoping to shake them, but they keep following her, these two groups. Liz had stopped taking her medication only a few days earlier. She never wanted to be on the medication in the first place, she was fought taking it for so long, mainly because of her stress, and depression about her life. She tried so hard to fight the endless sobbing. But finally Liz has to go to see the psychiatrist doctor. Then he put her on a few different drugs. And now Liz could feel an extra inch of daylight opening in her mind, she also can finally sleep at night. But still, she never relaxed into taking those drugs. She doesn’t want her entire life to be depends on those drugs. And now she is in Rome, loneliness and depression come to attack her again. But this time she decided to let herself off the hook from worrying with herself to write in paper. She wants to speak with god. Then she started to write it, and it’s helped her a lot.

Liz needed to make some friends, and now she has a nice assortment of them. She knew two Elizabeths in Rome now, both are American, and both are writers. Then Giovanni and Dario, her Tandem Language Exchange fantasy twins. She also become friends with a cool couple named Maria and Giulio, he is the one who taught Liz Italian, and Liz also taught him back English. Liz’s parents have a small farm, and her sister and Liz grew up working. Liz and her sister taught to be dependable. Americans work harder and longer and more stressful hours than anyone in the world today. Americas don’t really know how to do nothing. But Italian is not like American. The wonderful Italian expression: the art of making something out of nothing. Liz come to Italy to define what is pleasure is. The amount of pleasure this eating and speaking brought to her was inestimable. Liz love Italy. 

e a t.p r a y.l o v e. 1-50

            The story began with the life of one woman, Elizabeth or Liz, who first have everything. She has a perfect life, marriage, study. But three years ago her life began to changed: a moment which also found her in this exact same posture: on her knees, on a floor, praying. That’s three years ago she lived with her husband. Liz supposed to be happy with this marriage but no she say to herself that she doesn’t wants to be married again. She supposed want to have a baby with her husband, who have been living with her 8 years. Her husband was sleeping in other room. She equal parts loved him, but could not stand for him. She wouldn’t wake her husband up to share in her distress, because he already watching Liz behave likes a madwoman for 3 months already. And her husband has losing his patient with it. Liz and her husband have been fighting and crying. And from that she started to pray to god. Liz wants to talk with god but she doesn’t know what to say, until one night she think that she can’t handle it anymore so she started to pray to god about what is happening through her life now. She ask god to tell her what to do. And there’s a reply, it’s was her voice but it’s full with warmth of affection. The voice said “go back to bed Liz.” This brings her even close to god. Liz and her husband went from people who knew each other the best in the world to being a pair of the most mutually incomprehensible strangers who ever lived. Then months passed her life hung in limbo as she waited to be released. As she and her husband were living separately, but nothing was resolved. And then there was David, the guy she fall in love with after marriage. She moved right in with David after she left her husband. David and her met because he was performing in a play based on short stories she was written. They have such a great time together during those early months when he was still her romantic hero. The first summer of Liz and David looked like the failing in love montage of every romantic movie you have ever seen. As that time she still thinking her divorce might actually proceed gracefully. Then David suddenly emotional back-stepping. Then things started to look up somewhat when she moved out of David’s place in early 2002 and found her own apartment the first time of her life. David and Liz had broken up for good. The other notable thing that was happening during that time was the newfound adventure of spiritual discipline. In the meantime, though, she had to go on this trip on Indonesia, because of magazine assignment. While she’s here, she is going to visit a ninth generation Balinese medicine man. Liz can ask any question, then she choose to say that “I want to have a lasting experience of god. Then kitut said so find the balance you want, you must look through your heart, instead. That way Liz will know god. And kitut said about everything in Liz’s life. He knows everything. So after she came back she started to thinking what she want to do, and suddenly she’s thinking that she want to go to Italy or India or Indonesia. And eventually she wants to travel all of them. Now she have been waiting for her husband to sign to divorced so her life will be free, everyday she called her lawyer fourteen times to ask the news about the divorced. Few days later she got good news from her lawyer that her husband was signed it. Then a few weeks later, Liz is in Italy. Liz was lived in Rome. The first week she lived in Rome was nothing much except for food. When she finished her meal she walked through the building to go back to her apartment. When Liz come back to her apartment she lay down in her new bed and turn off the light. She waited herself to crying or worrying, since that’s what usually happened to her, but she actually felt okay, she felt fine. And this is just a beginning of the Liz’s story in Rome.

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