"I say "we" and I mean myself,my soul,my selves,my many lives.I say "we" and I also mean the other ones like me who have the memory.The conscious record or experience on this earth that survives every death.There aren't many,I know.Maybe one in a century,one born out of millions.We love one another rarely,but believe me,there are others.Atleast one of them has a memory far more extra ordinary than mine" QUOTABLE LINES
"There had been many lives I had been happy to leave even if painfully.So many times I had been eager to start again to see where a new life would lead with the hope that it would lead me back to Sophia" THIS BOOK DOES MAKES SENSE to me in a HUGE way!It amazes me in a lot of ways! I had random thoughts about lots of things such as... OLD TIMES In ways where I started to think about old times and lots of things.Where it made me want to live during the 18th century.Vintage.Nature.True love.Time when people write each other letters.When internet was not a threat to society.When people knows how to verbally communicate instead of posting on twitter/fb/instagram/tumblr/pinterest/youtube and other social media outlets. TECHNOLOGY When man was still man's bestfriend and not a dog.I think,dogs became man's bestfriend when technology hacked the world but when one needed a hug and understanding, computers can't offer it at all so man turned to animals.And they are in search of loyalty.And the most loyal animal they can turn to is a dog.Hence,the role was stolen from man because "Dogs became MANS bestfriend! OMG! Sorry,I was lost.Were are we again.Oh right,the book! NATURE NATURE was here first before us and it never abandoned it's purpose until man exploited it.It was here before any human being.It stayed where it was until it served its purpose.As for us humans,we can always leave and go back everytime we feel like it.As for nature,it's just here serving it's purpose.Just there.Unmoved. Have you ever tried spending time alone with nature? Either just watching sunrise in the morning.Or a moving water in a river or a rainfall or the whistling of leaves and the waves of the tree branches? Have you ever heard the birds singing happily unworried where to live and what and where to eat next? Have you ever experienced that serene calm feeling as the cold morning air brush your face? No honking cars,no alarm clocks.No phones ringing.No bills on the mail.No buzzer.Just you and nature?! That feeling is magical! Just soothing and calming! FUN MEMORIES Everyone wants fun.I want fun.I easily fall in love with smart funny people.People fun to hung out with.I can laugh all day and be happy but in those rarest moments when I feel that pang of pain from someone you dearly love or hated.Or from anything with deeper regrets.It easily off sets the fun times.It stole my heart and attention.They are memories.Either happy or sad,still they have that effect that either makes me too happy or too sad. TO OBSERVE It gave me the idea to take time and look around.Turn off all gadgets.Just watch people passing by.Just observe how they walk.How a person looks and how he roll his eyes.One thing that I usually do when I'm on a Public transportation is watching other passengers.Observing them.How many are listening to music.How many are talking to someone on their phone.How many are sleeping.How many looked stressed or irritated.It's rare to see someone relax.It's really rare. THE WHAT IF'S This made me wonder so much.One of the challenges of this REBIRTH thing is having to deal with who's younger or older in the next life.You cannot commit suicide because you will be considered as shifter.But in his case,he seemed to die lots of time before he found Sophia at the perfect age and time. CARPE DIEM There are some stories where memories are burried only to show up in the middle and things got complicated.There are these stories where things got weird and out of control but because of love,they find each other again. I can go on and on like I can talk about lots of things randomly that came to mind after reading this book.I like this book so much due to the fact that it talks about the PAST BRIDGED TO THE PRESENT and I like how beautiful it turned out.The story teaches one that it's important to be at peace with one's own self so when your environment gets really loud,you can just turn inward and shut everything around you. You can find comfort in your inner self if you already have that peace within you,you can draw strength from it and you can survive.So no matter how stressful your environment can get,you can always turn inward and draw strength and PEACE from within.Perks of being INTROVERT. If there's one feeling that I can strongly relate with in this book it was the feeling of dying a thousand times so I can live again.So I wrote this... " In my younger years,I'm pretty sure I have lived half of the years of my life comatose.I have died countless times than I have actually lived my life.My life is not much fun and exciting.It's not the life that anyone would ever wanted or envy.I'm the most boring person you might have ever met.Not popular and doesn't have much friends BUT as I grow older,my memory is extra ordinary that everytime I try to look back and remember my life,I see so much things that either overwhemls me or saddens me" UNIQUENESS The story was like a combination of Stephanie Meyer's twilight and L.J Smith's Vampire Diaries except THE VAMPIRE SUCKING BLOOD thing.I know I'm exagerating but allow me to just this time because I'm probably just overwhelmed. It was a first time for me to read a fiction about a man who lived long enough but he wasn't a vampire.He was JUST a regular man who lived in thousand years,but in between he died lots of times.It's not a continued "one -man life".It was more of dying from time to time.Experiencing death in reality.It's more human.He doesn't have super powers to manipulate and be above those weaker than him.He simply lived his life and when his time is up,he dies and reborn again.And what's exciting was everytime he's reborn regardless of what time and culture or country,his memory gets better and better.He was inlove to one woman all throughout his many lives.His heart belonged to that woman alone.Hers and hers alone. This is really cool because a man can possibly die and be reborn lots of times and that's really what made it interesting for me because that transformation alone and having to live in different era of different culture and tradition is very exciting in terms of experience, cultural references and skills. Who would not want to fall in love to a man who lived and died a thousand times yet still love the same WOMAN? Figuratively speaking,there are really people who only loved once in their life and that their love story is messed up big time but in the end,they end up together in old age.Sweet and romantic isn't it?!!! STORY SUMMARY CONSTANTANIPOLE.He was 11 years old and it was his third life.He was a soldier with his brother.They were ordered to burn all the houses when she saw that girl named Sophia.For the first time,he felt tenderness and affection.He wished he didn't burn her to death.And that memory haunted him all his life.It was his both his blessing and curse because he fell in love to the girl he killed a long long time ago.
His name is DANIEL.All people from his time changes name one life after the other but because his memory is extra ordinary,he kept the same name all his many lives.He can speak many languages. He met Sophia again on her second life,she was a young woman marrid to the magistrate.That was the last time he saw her before he died of cholera.And as a punishment,Daniel didn't see her for the next 200 years of his life.He kept searching for her.Not giving up.He just can recognize her.He just know her.No need for her to know him.He just can find him even in thousand years.He can. In modern day,she was called Lucy who designs landscaping.Her sister Dana died while they were in High School.Her sister had a bad reputation that people in her school gossip about but they eventually came around and Lucy was fine.She was with her bestfriend and flatmate for a long time. Joaquim was Daniel's eldest brother.He was a soldier for a long time and he has bad temper.After long time of being away from home,he told everybody he is coming home with his wife.Then to Daniel's surprise,it was Sophia but of course she cannot remember him at all.It was Sophia's third life. Joaquim didn't treat Sophia well.But Daniel did everything he could to comfort Sophia as her brother in law.Daniel can make Sophia happy and smile effortlessly whenever they are together.But he controlled all his feelings for her as a respect to his brother.One night,his brother came home wasted and Daniel saw how his brother shoved Sophia across the room hruting her.All that feelings came all together and he ended beating his brother.Joaquim was obviously a strong man that Daniel can't beat but since he was sober,Daniel beat him hard. Daniel took Sophia far away from his brother.He promised his mom he will come soon as the family business was mismanaged by Joaquim after their father died.Daniel took Sophia away.He brought her far away from where Joaquim was.He brought Sophia to a far away village and paid a woman to look after her while she restarted her life.Daniel promised Sophia that he will come back for her. Those moments they spent in the wilderness was my favorite.The respect Daniel gave her.The love,care and affection.Everything his brother didn't give him.But as much as he desired Sophia so much,he respected her that he refused to touch her in anyway because she was his brother's wife.The funniest thing was when he experienced erection because Sophia was close enough to him,he hid himself. Sophia at age 15 was given to the highest bidder and that's how his brother bought her.So no matter how much he loved Sophia,he was to keep distance as this is the only way to avoid his brother from finding her. He went back and gathered his brothers just as he promised his mom.But he got killed and he didn't get back to Sophia.She waited and waited but he never get back until she was really so old. He was reborn and in a village,he recognized the old woman.He went to introduce himself but since he was just a boy,no one believes him.But Sophia treated him well.And when the village was attacked,Sophia died. MODREN DAY.Lucy got weirded witha guy named Daniel on his class.Daniel found the strength to reveal himself to Lucy but she freaked out.She cannot believe everything Daniel told him.She cannot remember herself called Sophia or Constance.And that was the last confrontation because lots fo people saw Daniel jumped on the seaside cliff and no one ever heard of him again.Everyone thought he got drowned. That confrontation disturbed Lucy a lot.She cannot make any sense of what Daniel told her but she had that weird feelings towards him.Out of fun,her friend Marnie suggest that they should see a fortune teller.And it made worse because the fortune teller kept talking about Daniel. And just as Lucy started to get interested with him,he completely vanish.She busied herself at school and work.Also,she slept with Marnies brother Alexander that she use to baby sit when he cornered her alone in her flat. ENGLAND LONDON. She was Constance,a nurse and she was treating Daniel suffering from Tubercolosis.She was just a few years ahead.But Daniel recognized her and everyday he tried to fill her in with their stories.But Constance just thought it has something to do with Daniel's condition but when Daniel displayed such an unbelievable skill in speaking different languages and arts,she started believing him.So everyday,Daniel would read a book in different languages and translate it for her.And when he died,Constance volunteered to South Africa where she died after suffering from malaria.But before dying,she wrote a letter to herself to ensure she will remember Daniel and have it hidden at a secured place in the attic of their house. PRESENT DAY. Lucy went for hypnosis and have listend to the recording of her session.She worked hard and save her and went to England to find that letter.She found it exactly hidden where she had left it. She was waiting for Daniel to show up.She had her social media up to date just incase Daniel wanted to find her and he did.They have been dating pretty much but what surprise Lucy was she cannot stand him anymore.Everytime they are together and Daniel wanted to kiss her,she would reason out or think of something to get out of something as she cannot stand him.He seemed totally different but he knew their story so he was holding on. She doesn't want him showing up in her flat.She doesn't want him to meet Marnie but when he surprised him one day and told her she booked them a week get away in Mexico,it pissed and disappointed her but she went for it anyway thinking she can get off some of the things she worries about while on vacation. Daniel finally found where Lucy was and when he went to confront her after debating about it lots of time,Marnie was surprised to find out he was actually the real Daniel. Turned out,Lucy had been dating an impostor,it was his brother Joaquim.Daniel felt sick and worried and got all the details he needed from Marnie and followed them in Mexico.Because his brother's memory is not as sharp as his,he didn't recognize Daniel when he went outside the hotel for a smoke.He seemed pissed off.Daniel took his chance and took Lucy away before his brother returned.He brought her to his secret haven and have stayed a few days there enjoying their time.But Joaquim found them and just as they tried to escaped,they were shot repeatedly.They held on each othe and decided to jump of the ocean so the waves will wash them away.They agreed to die together and promised to find each other on the next life.They have struggled with the storm as they were drifted away.Daniel with all his strength kept Lucy from dying though they were ready to die,he wanted to save her.And just as they reach a safe spot,Lucy regained her strength but Daniel was drifting away.And as they lay in top of the stone,Daniel died in Lucy's arms.
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