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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