For those of you living under a rock, the story goes like this: "At 32 years old, Elizabeth Gilbert was educated, had a home, a husband, and a successful career as a writer. However, she was unhappy in her marriage and often spent the night sleeping on her bathroom floor. After separating from her husband and initiating a divorce, which he contested, she embarked on a rebound relationship which continued for some time but did not work out, leaving her devastated and alone.
Afterwards, while writing an article on yoga vacations in Indonesia, Gilbert met a ninth-generation medicine man who told her she would one day come back and study with him. After finalizing her difficult divorce, Gilbert spent the next year traveling around the world. The trip was paid for in advance with a book deal from the publisher.
She spent four months in Italy, eating and enjoying life ('Eat'). She spent three months in India, finding her spirituality ('Pray'). She ended the year in Bali, Indonesia, looking for 'balance' of the two and found love ("Love") in the form of a Brazilian businessman."
I hope to find a balance of sorts in my own life through traveling. I aspire to become humbled and aware; stretched and filled with spontaneity; balanced and nourished in every sense. There is a part in the book where Gilbert is in Italy, deep in conversation with friends discussing words that describe where they are from and who they are. London = Stuffy; New York = Ambition; and Rome = Sex. Gilbert chooses "Writer," as her word and is told that is what she does, not who she is. The title of this blog, Attraversiamo, is the Italian word Gilbert finally comes to realize as her personal word in Bali. It means, "Let's cross over."
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