"everything is going to be great"

i just finished a surprisingly charming book recommended to me by the lovely loco, everything's going to be great by rachel shukert.

the memoir begins in a very negative, i've-made-terrible-decisions-that-are-now-funny-stories-let-me-tell-them-to-you sort of way during rachel's european quest to "find herself."  however, the book continued and i began to like her more as she did seem to begin to "find herself" or some parts of it during her journey.

the end of the book was surprisingly inspirational and there were a few quotes that i quite liked about travel and life. and how the places you go and the people you meet really do shape you and thus, help you to find out who you really are.

"a backyard is nothing but a little patch of dirt and rocks and sky.  and the world is a vast, terrifying, and wonderful place, filled with things we don't know yet we need.  nothing comes to us until we leave our little patch of dirt and go find them."


"...we travel to search for our souls. everywhere we go, every experience we have, we find another little piece that leads us to the next, like a clue in a treasure hunt.  each little piece of soul we find gets layered on top of the last one.  layers of sediment, forming a mountain.  can a mountain ever be finished? can a soul? i guess it's finished when we are..."


so there you go.

xx