booktrack 2011-02: Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door

I just need a copy of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten and I will have all three of Robert Fulghum's books. Thrifted It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It a few years back and this book late last year. Booksale is love ♥

How I wish I could write essays like this man does. I blog because I like writing and not because I like writing it would mean that I actually make sense. I rarely do. Anyway, I really admire people like Mr. Fulghum and how they make interesting essays and make sense of almost anything under the sun, even if it's just about the most mundane, everyday stuff such as meatloaf. 

I had fun reading this and in the tradition of book reviews, my style, here are snippets/ quotes from the book I find inspiring~

Yet love has a way of ambushing the heart and folding the best laid plans back in upon the planner... Everybody gets burned sometime. Everybody gets a turn. And to wit I don't know if I am actually lucky that I haven't gotten my turn yet.

"Maybe something will happen" is Cinderella's motto and that is one motto that shouldn't be lived out. I should remind myself to get this Cinderella syndrome off my system. I thought Cinderella syndrome has something to do with waiting for prince charming; turns out it is waiting for something, anything, to happen to you. In the fairy tale, it just happens that Cinderella's something is her prince charming. I should make it happen myself. In the words of Tim Gunn, Make it work!

Hope for better times is not enough- that one must be an active participant in the quality of the future. If I want flowers in the future the planting must be done now. Also related to doing without that darn fairy tale syndrome. Honestly, this just spoke to me. I am guilty of waiting for things to happen. Passive waiting. Always hoping for some kind of Divine Intervention- that's me! And that shouldn't be the case. Hope and faith must be active verbs. Ya hear?

Also came across the Law of Compensation or the concept that one's extremely good attributes/skills are offset by another attribute that is not so good. Meaning, an extremely good-looking woman may be dumb as a stump. God is fair after all. There is hope for me. Haha! What could be that one attribute or skill I'm extremely good at?

It was entertaining and informative reading this book. I enjoyed it so much I think I will reread It Was On Fire... soon. Next book on the list: Ambeth Ocampo's Dirty Dancing: Looking Back 2.