koleeta

I've started reading A New Earth recently. I've had it around for awhile because my New Age, hippie aunt sent it to me but I could never really get into it. Right now though I'm going through a introspective phase and I feel I'm in the right mindset for it.

You know in elementary school during standardized tests they'd give you a passage to read and then later ask you questions about it? They also said that you would be graded on any notes that you made on the page while reading through it. These always worried me because I never thought about the passages as I read them. I seemed to be more concerned about comprehension and catching every last detail than letting my mind just wander about the content. I thought maybe I this said something about the type of person I am. Someone who just accepts what they are told and does not question what others say. I like to think that maybe that made me more disciplined or something.

Anyway, I brought A New Earth to the gym with me yesterday and I wanted more than anything to just stop and start making notes in the book. I didn't because 1. I was on an exercise bike and 2. it's not my personal copy. A lot of the points they were making I just couldn't accept (Does this say something about me now? My personality has definitely changed a lot since then.). I'm going to try to keep reading and see if it gets any better for me though.

Have any of you read it? I'd like to know what other people think about it.