Book- Dear Stranger, I Know How You Feel
Author- Ashish Bagrecha
Pages-185
BLURB:
Dear Stranger,
I don’t know much about you, but I do know how you feel. You are feeling lost, lonely and misunderstood. You are tired of pain and suffering. Depression, anxiety and negativity chase you. You don’t know where to find hope and how to heal yourself. Trust me, I have been there myself, and I know it’s not easy.
So, I am writing these thirty letters and poems to you, to let you know that you are not alone, and that you are understood. You are still cared for.
I hope you will read one of these letters every day, and I promise you, together, we will get through this. Life is difficult, but not if we take it one day at a time.
Trust the universe and never give up.
Love and Light,
A stranger who feels you
MY TAKE ON THIS BOOK:
‘Dear Stranger, I Know How You Feel’ is a self help book in which the author has written as many as thirty poems and letters dedicated to the people who need them. It starts with Day-1 and ends with Day-30.
When you start reading the book, you will know that the author wants you to read at least one letter a day (although I have read almost half in a sitting).
There are some poems that will touch your core and some letters that will make you wonder.
No matter if you are lost, no matter if you are defeated, no matter if you failed, no matter if you are left heartbroken, you will find light in your life again.
If you ask me which poem I loved the most in the book, it’s this one-
“maybe we will never meet
but we can still walk together
like parallel lines
to infinity and beyond”.
Some people just arrive uninvited in our life. When we least know about it. Some people leave us with a hope to meet somewhere someday under different circumstances. And that hope keeps us moving.
And that’s life… It keeps going no matter where you are, what you are!
You know, we all have chaos and constant whirlwind of our thoughts in our mind. Sometimes we sit in our room and allow that constant thought to overpower us. And to tell you the truth, this is where we should stop. Never let anything overpower you. Even if it’s your own thoughts.
There’s one more poem I loved from this book, it’s this one:
“you think
your dreams are dying
but here’s the truth
dreams never die.
they are simply leaving you
when they grow tired
they change homes.
they believe
they deserve better
because dreams love doers
more than thinkers.”
Do you remember what it was like to dream? To believe with a wholehearted, burning passion that you dreamed would come to pass. Dreams. They were a part of your life as long as you can remember. When you were a child, you dreamed of floating amongst the stars, of walking on the moon, and of raindrops that danced as they fell. And as you grew, so did your dreams. Your dreams filled your head with ideas of what life would be like when you finally reached adulthood.
Life eventually catches up, and at some point, somewhere, you needed to be realistic.
And so, the skills you were taught as a child, to help break your future down into steps and stages, begin to slowly erode your dreams. Pretty soon, they are forgotten. They became stories of what you thought you would be when you grew up, and seem to be a distant memory.
This book tells us more about self- discovery, self appreciation and self-love. Also about dreams, love, hope and healing.
I have enjoyed reading this book and frankly, I won’t suggest you to read this. Because you yourself know what you should do. Everyone knows. This book is basically the written or printed form of your own thoughts.
The author, ‘Ashish Bagrecha’ have written the book with a pure intension to help the people who are suffering. To help the people in healing. To give them a hope that everything will be fine one day. And I really appreciate the work done by the author in penning down the emotions.
P.S.- It is truly connected with reality of life. And I am sure you will be able to relate yourself as you go on reading this book.
Overall Rating- 3/5
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