Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything she could wish for: youth and beauty, pleny of attractive boyfriends, a fulfilling job, and a loving family. Yet something is lacking in her life. Inside her is a void so deep that nothing could possibly ever fill it. So, on the morning of November 11, 1997, Veronika decides to die. She takes a handful of sleeping pills expecting never to wake up.
Naturally Veronika is stunned when she does wake up at Villete, a local mental hospital, where the staff informs her that she has, in fact, partially succeeded in achieving her goal. While the overdose didn't kill Veronika immediately, the medication has damaged her heart so severely that she has only days to live.
The story follows Veronika through the intense week of self-discovery that ensues. To her surprise, Veronika finds herself drawn to the confinement of Villete and its patients, who, each in his or her individual way, reflect the heart of human experience. In the heightened state of life's final moments, Veronika discovers things she has never really allowed herself to feel before: hatred, fear, curiosity, love, and sexual awakening. She finds that every second of her existence is a choice between living and dying, and at the eleventh hour emerges more open to life than ever before.
In Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho takes the reader on a distinctly modern quest to find meaning in a culture overshadowed by angst, soulless routine, and pervasive conformity. Based on events in Coelho's own life, Veronika Decides to Die questions the meaning of madness and celebrates individuals who do not fit into patterns society considers to be normal. Poignant and illuminating, it is a dazzling portrait of a young woman at the crossroads of despair and liberation, and a poetic, exuberant appreciation of each day as a renewed opportunity.
ISBN:61015016
Author:COELHO PAULO
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Book Review By Ekoroi Olagaless
This motivational book has an exercise in ‘what have you learnt’ after each chapter.
Change is painful, but that pain is the fire that ultimately helps us escape our present circumstances, whatever they are, to experience freedom.
What is freedom?
In this book, Vincent Ogutu carefully researched, selected and wrote about the ten common things that hold people back in life.
The chapters are carefully divided to address the above, mostly mental (even sometimes physical) constraints.
In Escape Slavery, the author shares the life of one Frederic Douglass, how he escaped physical slavery and the traits that made him successful in life.
The book’s second chapter is about escaping debt, I think everyone should get this book and read this chapter first, then the others. Debt and money management is the single most enslaving thing in our current world.
There are other chapters such as escaping career stagnation, escaping stress, and escaping stagnation in life.
Face your jailers with knowledge and Experience Freedom. All it takes are Little STEPS big IMPACTS. – Vincent Ogutu, Author and Business Coach.
The overarching message in the above-mentioned four chapters is having the mindset to believe in a better future than present circumstances. The will and action to do different, most often better, is what makes the difference towards freedom.
There are also chapters on escaping toxic relationships, escaping gender stereotypes, escaping poverty, escaping unhealthily competition and escaping politics.
In the last two chapters, titled Opportunities and Escape, the author shares how to spot opportunities and lastly the mental stamina and physical resolve in escaping the past, failure and mediocrity to experience true freedom in one’s life.
It is imperative that in escaping a mediocre and average life, one first knows, acknowledges and rejects their present circumstances, secondly, one has to have a mental picture of their desired destination.
This is a great self-help book that should not be hurriedly read. Get the lessons, write them down, digest them by doing the exercises at the end of each chapter – Ekoroi
Ogutu puts that across very well for the reader.
However, as has been shown in the book, without action, nothing can be achieved.
The nuggets for success that are shared about the examples of people that have worked hard and escaped their previous bad circumstances are enough to motivate one to start now.
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Joweezy Nebdialahanihani
Good stuff bro…still reading the book