sat in the office with nothing to do today. sent a few messages that didn't give a reply. gave up waiting. tried a few phone calls. gave up too. i resorted to telling my colleague the bao joke so that i wouldn't be so bored. and i even smsed my mom. tt's how bored i was... she told me to ask for a pay raise. because she says that the most difficult work to do is when there's no work to do. words of wisdom from my mummy, chiminology. anyways, the company left for a scavenger hunt event thingy around 2, leaving me with nothing. so i just sat at my corner and read my book.
i finished it today.
its amazing.
it made me cry.
the five people you meet in heaven by Mitch Albom.
I never thought that a fictional book could have such an impact. habibi was good, but this. this is the ultimate. it made me feel. it made me want to never stop reading. it made me want to read it over and over again. initially i thought this was a story for people who wasn't gamed enough to read fantasies, thrillers, investigations kinda book. it was a safe book, a 'boring' book. i couldn't have been more wrong.
from when i started reading. i thought hey its quite interesting. the way the author cuts the chapters into chapters. its compartmentalizing the book into more than it has. more than it already is. just like how he is trying to convey the message that there is more to this life than the standard 'set' mundane chapters that we claim our lives to have.
Eddie may be ordinary, but his story is way more than that. the last 2 people he met in heaven were the most touching. his wife, Marguerite and a little girl named Tala.
Eddie loves his wife so much. and she's just a darling. and its amazing to see how an ordinary mechanic like him could feel a love so great that people only thought heroes possess. he loves his wife. and that's that. throughout his entire life. tt's just him. loving Marguerite. the song that played at their wedding by the acordion. its touching. it was really love that grew to a ripe old age. and even in heaven, he didnt' want to see his wife as a pretty young thing but preferred her to be as he remembered, a little old lady that aged with grace and beauty. honestly to have loved like that in this life would be the greatest accomplishment anyone could ever have.
i really don't want to be a spoiler here because i want you guys to read the book. seriously. especially about Tala. when i was sitting in the office, reading the last 2 chapters of the book. i started to tear. from the way Tala handles the pipe-cleaner horse that Eddie made for her, and the way she behaves towards Eddie as if she had known him for years. the forgiveness and innocence of a child that knows no boundaries. i cried. it was embarrassing but i cried anyhow. i lifted the book higher so no one else could see. but yeah the last two chapters. wow. the most touching chapters i've ever read in my entire life.
i love this book.
here's the song that played at Eddie's wedding to Marguerite and played in heaven when the couple reunited as the fourth person he's supposed to meet.
"You Made Me Love You"
You made me love you
I didn't want to do it
I didn't want to do it
You made me love you
And all the time you knew it
I guess you always knew it
You made me happy sometimes
You made me glad
But there were times dear
Oh You made me feel so bad
You made me cry because
I didn't want to tell you
I didn't want to tell you
I need a love thats true
Yes I do, deed I do, you know I do
I don't care what happens
When the whole world stops
As far as I'm concerned
You'll always be the tops cause
You know you made me love you
Gimme, gimme, gimme, what I cry for
You got the kinda kisses
That I would die for
You know you made me love you
Oh, You know you made me love you
snll drifted away at 8:41 AM
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