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.
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