Rating: 4/5
The deepest, darkest, most vulnerable emotions that rise up to the brim of one’s conscience is what makes up the essays in the book – Loss. After a while, this word acts like a trigger and reminds you of the empty spots in your life, the missing pieces of your puzzle. In this book, the author has displayed his journey of over a decade – of losing the ones closest to you, of denying it, of remembrance and reminiscence, and of acceptance and finally, healing.
A child, when born, is destined to see the demise of his parents someday. What is more devastating is if the opposite of that happens. In our lifetime, not many of us value each relationship as we should – some we take for granted, some we take for more than their worth. We usually don’t talk about any of this until the day we actually come to face it, because it hurts to even think about it. Here, is laid out a trail of what everyone goes through – losing a loved one – a parent, both of them, a pet – and along with them, the relationship you held with them.
Rightly said by the author, when you lose someone close, you don’t lose just them. You lose a part of yourself; you lose who you were when you were with them.
When I started reading, it proved difficult for me to keep going. My eyes would fill up with tears – maybe it was the writing style or the overall energy of the book. But soon the tears were replaced with an understanding and acceptance. That is when the book talks about healing and how death of a close one plays a part in who we ultimately become – its inevitable but doesn’t necessarily have to be final.
There is a lot of parallelism between the three losses, but at the same time they’re very distinct and separated. One loss reminds of the other, like an interwined story, which is what life essentially is.
I really liked the tiny snippets and inputs from other author’s works that are present in the book. They really uplifted the text and made it wholesome. There are also certain pictures that enlarge the elaborate picture the book created for me; some where real life pictures of events described in the book.
It is a great work of non-fiction and uplifting in many ways. I really enjoyed reading the book, though it ended up being a bitter-sweet time for me. I highly recommend this book.
Reviewed by Muskan Rajani
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