I am now "Committed" to "Eat Pray Love" everyday

Elizabeth Gilbert came into this world only1 year before I did. Her first marriage failed as mine did. She took a spiritual journey to find healing after her divorce, like I did. And she found love again, just like me. She loves to write as I do.

But she is published and I am not yet. Her latest books, Eat Pray Love and Committed, have touched my heart and brought a soothing balm to my spirit that I desperately needed through the written word.

The latest book, Committed, which is subtitled "A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage", intrigued me from the first moment I read an excerpt. After getting a fortune from a fortune cookie that read "You will soon receive some good advice through the written word", I just KNEW I had to buy the second book.

Of course it helped immensely that my sweetheart was sick in bed all weekend and I had plenty of time to read.

She starts off with the notion that marriage is a society type of control and thus rebels against its very nature until circumstances force her and her beloved to "marry" or forever be separated. Through her diligent and sometimes all consuming research, she discovers that humans created "marriage" and society had to adapt to it. Therefore when the choice must be made, she chooses matrimony because now she is part of the history of marriage and sees it as a subversive ideal that she totally supports.

I came to the conclusion that the wedding ceremony is for the benefit of your friends and family. Committing to each other privately carries the same consequences as doing it openly. Though some argue it isn't real if it isn't witnessed, I believe it is just as real with or without the legal document. Should I fail this time, I will still have the same heart ache as I had last time when there was a piece of paper signed. I just know I was better able to make a more conscious informed decision than when I was 19. I didn't have a clue back then.

Someday I will get married again. This I know. When, that I don't know.