Eat Pray Love

I'm currently reading the book, Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. It's beautifully written and just a nice read. It's divided into three sections, based on where the author is at. Italy, India, and Indonesia.  And each of these locations has a new pursuit. Italy is the pursuit of pleasure. India is the pursuit of devotion. And Indonesia is the pursuit of balance. She spends four months in each of these locations doing these things... I guess you could say on the overall pursuit of happiness.  Which, is something I've been thinking about a lot lately (largely spurred on by the song by Kid Cudi). But I think I'm going to try this idea but scaled down to a summer. For the month of June, I'm going to focus on the pursuit of pleasure, finding what makes me happy. July will be the pursuit of devotion, rediscovering my relationship with God and how I can delve deeper after falling away. And finally August will be figuring out the balance of these things and life just in time for school to start again. I feel bad even considering these things... like I'm betraying God in some way. But I'm not. I still love Jesus with everything thing I have. But I have completely lost who I am over the past few months with all of the hard stuff and stress that I've gone through.  Of course my life won't be completely devoted to the things that Gilbert did. I still have to work and pay bills and other obligations. And I'm going to pray, go to church, and things while on my pursuit of pleasure. But I'm not going to feel guilty about the fact that I just dyed my hair. Or the fact that I have drank every night for the past four nights. June starts in two days. But I'm going to start a new blog now. My summer blog. The pursuit of happiness... and Identity.