Beautiful Chaos.

Finally.  I finally am reading Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.  It’s taken me a while to get there but here I am.  It’s great so far too.  Ya’ll should read it.  It’s full of good stuff to think about. 

I read this one part and I just loved it.  She is in Italy and just broke it off with this guy David (James Franco) and is a mess.  She is trying to talk with one of her Italian friends about the situation but is struggling with what words to say.  He tells her, “Parla com magni.”  It means ‘speak the way you eat.’   She translated it as ‘say it like you eat it.’    You know I loved this phrase just in the pure fact that it is related to food and eating!  It has this truth behind it though.  This simplicity when things just need to be simple.  Don’t make things more complicated than they actually are,  just like the Romans with their food,  they just lay it out on the table.  Just say what you mean, say it like you eat it.  It’s beautiful really. 

I read and reread this paragraph several times.  I’m learning a lot over here.  A lot of the things I’m learning I can’t really put into words, I don’t really know what I’m learning in some ways.  I’ve been telling people that I’m having a learning overload.  I can’t keep things straight.  It’s overwhelming and chaotic, yet at the same time my life has never looked more at ease and at peace.  I have this weird and awesome tension in my life that I wouldn’t change for anything.  I’m finding that it is to much to process and think about my experience so far.  It’s a lot.  So in this time of chaos I’m trying to truly grasp the understanding of simplicity.   My mind is running a lot.  I have questions that have no answer.  I have too much to think about.  I’m taking it one step at a time though.  No need for this overload.   I’m going to say it like I eat it.