I cleaned up my room today and chanced with an old book I got from a garage sale 5 years ago. It’s called Living, Loving and Learning by Dr. Leo Buscaglia. The book is actually a collection of Buscaglia’s speeches and talks over the years of traveling across countries and visiting campuses and churches to deliver inspiring talks with topics just about anything between love and life as a whole. His books are actually categorized as self-help books. It may not seem to be a technical term for books that has sold many copies over the years and still gaining Buscaglia recognition and respect. Whatever label befits it, one thing is sure – this book is a worthwhile read.
Perhaps, these books are called self-help books because the readers are inspired by the author’s anecdotes of fun and misadventures that are embedded with wit and that natural flair of a boy who had a very rich childhood.
Living, Loving and Learning has become my refuge and I could even trade it for my religion and the things I believe in.
The book will leave the reader with an indelible message of hope, love and life in general. It will encourage the reader to find solace and meaning in little things and being happy and fulfilled about it can be the one’s Nirvana.
Buscaglia’s unsurpassed unique writing and speaking brings different hues to the rudiments of rhetoric. His way of narrating things resembles like one who is talking to a friend about his summer vacation. His words come to life as the reader savors line by line, page by page.
Obviously, rediscovering this book is a happy find. For the next few days, it will lie next to me in my bed or it will be kept under my pillows. Or anywhere at arm’s length so it will come handy to me whenever my soul needs the quiet time or when my spirit asks for rekindling of my inner flame.
