Sunday 10 June 2012

Why Blame Bipolar Blame Yourself?

The Bookshop Guru

I ask this question because many people always seem to have an excuse why they can't do something right now, because of this or that, and I suffer with bipolar, but it doesn't stop me trying.

Anyhow, some time ago this happened to me, for all you agnostics out there in cyberspace, because when you think about it, whose fish bowl are we in anyway, yours or mine? And, if you have any doubts about what you can do, because there are always a few sceptics around those doubting Thomas’s who refuse to believe what’s possible, here’s the answer.

A few months ago, while shopping in the local mall I picked up a book its title was “How to talk to girls.” You can always do with some extra tips, I was thinking. My biggest problem has not been how to talk to girls, but how to pick the right ones. Seriously, some of my girlfriends have been more manic then me. Recently, I had one girlfriend, who wanted to marry me after knowing me for only a week, that’s either commitment or totally bonkers?

Curious cat, I turned the book over to find out the cost. It turns out that the book was written by an eight year old boy, his name is Alec Greven. He is a bit older now; this was a few years ago. But, I have still made my point. Just how old do you have to be to make money?

You work it out.

Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax

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So if you still have any doubts about what you can do just carry on sucking on that straw you never know it may just send you to sleep, and then who knows what dreams may come.

There’s an old saying “you have to be up early, to catch the worm.” Otherwise amigo, hasta la vitas, senoritas.

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Why didn’t I think of that?

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P.S Tomorrow Never Comes

Hey, Chuck. Did you bring any spending money? Viva la vida loca.

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Which would you prefer half-price digital or paperback?

Never late, but sorry.

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Sunday 3 June 2012

The Incredible Story About the Diving Bell and the Butterfly

The Bookshop Guru

Book review of "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" by Jean-Dominique Bauby

Have you ever heard the incredible story about The Diving Bell and the Butterfly? It’s a true story written by Jean-Dominique Bauby; it captured my imagination and made me think long and hard about what I was doing with my life. I first heard about the story really by chance, I was flicking through the TV channels one night and I came across this documentary film which recalls the life of Jean-Dominique Bauby, who was once the editor of the fashionable French magazine Elle.

At first, I didn’t know if I would like to watch a film about someone who was so severely disabled. Honestly, we all have the urge sometimes not to look at things we don’t want to think about, we would rather think about something else instead. We all do it, look the other way, afraid maybe that somehow this might happen to us. Well, I persevered and enjoyed the love of life the film gave me, even though Jean-Dominique Bauby was the soul that life had dealt such a cruel twist.

The film was a portrait memoir of the book The Diving Bell and the Butterfly that was written solely by Jean-Dominique Bauby blinking his left eye lid. Suffering at the age of 43 a massive stroke Bauby was left paralysed and speechless apart from the ability to use his left eye for communication.

By using ESA, a technique that uses the frequency of letters of the French language Bauby was able to dictate words, sentences and eventually the book with the aid of his editor. Every word counts in this book, you know that Bauby’s effort was enormous, never lingering always with purpose.

That’s why I say ‘Live the dream,’ don’t tell me you don’t have the time, we all have the same twenty four hours. Although Bauby’s book is a memoir of his life, it reminds me how little time we have and how precious our lives are. Each one counts, and to live our dreams, and hold life itself dear to our hearts. Jean-Dominique Bauby died of a heart attack on March 9th 1997 two days after the book was published in France.

Original Art by Anthony Fox

I can only say go out and read this book and learn how a man coped within a shell, living the suffocation of a diving bell existence and at the same time releasing the butterflies of his imagination to the world.

So I say ’live the dream,’ and go out and do whatever it is you want from life. Let your mind be free to dream and in those dreams that may come, do not say, I have no time, for we all have the same time the same twenty four hours. So remember there’s an old saying, “It’s a fool that never reads a book.” As I turn another corner in my life.

Are you listening, what are you dreaming?

As Jesus said, “belief is everything.”