What does our bookshelf tell about us? That we need lot of self-help, and we give it in our case the top shelf. And since the universe seems more often than not to be working at stirring up my irrational beliefs, the most recent addition: 'A Guide to Rational Living', has been a critical one.
Scene1: Father prepares maggi for the child while mother looks on, thinking about the wonderfulness of life in general in spite of the soreness of her stiff neck in particular. In two minutes, the plate with steaming noodles arrives from kitchen, and with in seconds of being placed on the table, gets an accidental push from the ultra-cool-and-super-careless child and lands with a loud bang. Parents look down at the splattered mess and notice in their split vision, the ultra-cool dude's horror stricken expression. The child unaware of the recent conversion of his parents to rationality was waiting for the hell to break lose like it always does in such situations. But to his utter disbelief one of the rational beings took a gentle u-turn back to the kitchen and put the water on for making another packet of maggi while the other rational being started getting the paraphernalia together to clean up various states of matter gracing the floor, all the while massaging her sore neck.
If you are looking for the path from being neurotic to born again rational, this is the book for you.
Scene1: Father prepares maggi for the child while mother looks on, thinking about the wonderfulness of life in general in spite of the soreness of her stiff neck in particular. In two minutes, the plate with steaming noodles arrives from kitchen, and with in seconds of being placed on the table, gets an accidental push from the ultra-cool-and-super-careless child and lands with a loud bang. Parents look down at the splattered mess and notice in their split vision, the ultra-cool dude's horror stricken expression. The child unaware of the recent conversion of his parents to rationality was waiting for the hell to break lose like it always does in such situations. But to his utter disbelief one of the rational beings took a gentle u-turn back to the kitchen and put the water on for making another packet of maggi while the other rational being started getting the paraphernalia together to clean up various states of matter gracing the floor, all the while massaging her sore neck.
If you are looking for the path from being neurotic to born again rational, this is the book for you.
1 comment:
Anu, If this is the book by Dr Albert Ellis, it is an amazing book. I have been collecting his books and the content amazes me every time I read!! this one is not for faint of heart or for those who want truth be 'packaged' well and delivered softly!! Do check out his great videos on youtube. The man is brutal and that is the best part.
-Vani
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