Hello sanity, we meet again.😂😂😂
As you might have seen from my latest IG post, I just came back from a grueling work week and at last, I got to spend some quality me-time.
How did I spend it, you might ask?
Just the usual 8 hours of sleep and spending the rest of the day on bed, reading another book from my TBR pile - Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez while playing some of the vinyl from my collection.
What I didn't expect to happen then was me bursting into tears over some emotional scene from the book while Cigarettes After Sex was playing in the background. Let me tell you, it wasn't the usual tears streaming down my face while keeping it together kind of cry. It was the all out sobbing and pillow biting kind of cry. The one that comes from deep inside of you that felt like it was clawing it's way out of your throat. Overly dramatic you might say. But well, that's the way it was for me.
I guess being physically and emotionally drained made me vulnerable to this sudden bursts of emotion. Yet in the end, it felt liberating. It's like all the tension from the past few days finally drained out of my system. It made me feel better.
Anyway, let's talk about the book that I devoured in one sitting.
Ever since I read Friend Zone, Abby Jimenez was instantly added into my instant read list. And after reading Part of your World, I was not disappointed.
So Part of Your World is about two people who are worlds apart, but somehow the universe decided that they were meant for each other. She is a 30-something, successful emergency doctor born from a prominent family; while he was a 20-something carpenter / inn keeper / honorary town mayor from a small town. They met by chance and tried to fight against fate, but they end up falling for each other.
Cheesy as it may sound, knowing full well that they would end up together, but the part that I loved most about it was how I can easily relate to the way the heroine thinks. Whenever she hits a crossroad, she always try to choose that path that pleases the people around her instead of choosing the one that she really wanted just because she didn't want to cause them disappointment. But in the end, because of him, she learned that she would never be truly happy if she keeps on choosing other people's happiness over hers. That setting her priorities straight opens new paths for her that she never would've thought to be there. That she can have most of it, if not all, if she wanted to. I just hope that someday, I can be as brave as her too.
