My first Sark book ...

Today, "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince" of JK Rowling is out in bookstores. The closest Powerbooks to my workplace opened at 7 in the morning just for the launching of the book. Since I work in the night shift, that ended at 5:30, I had waited for a friend and asked her to come with me to the bookstore. I had no plans of picking up a copy of JK Rowling's book 6. I wanted to go there to look for another book.

As always, my first stop in bookstores when I'm looking for something to read would be the Self Help section. That's where I headed the moment I entered Powerbooks. I read synopsis one after another. Laughed at a few, yet, struck by some. But I flipped every interesting book to check its price. They were almost of the same 'expensive' price. My next thought, "Which one do I pick among these?" I had to be careful. I cannot waste money, especially now when my obligation of sending my children to school is already MY OWN obligation.

For those people who don't know me, it is difficult to understand the last sentence in my last paragraph. Yet, it isn't my obligation to explain to you why. That's just how life is.

I picked up several books, browsed through them ~ reading a few pages of each. Then I put back the ones that could wait till my next visit to the bookstore. I was left embracing three in my arms. My favorite was the most expensive one of the three. I didn't choose it as my favorite due to its price, but because of its content and how it inspired me inspite the fact that I had just browsed though it. It's a book by Sark, entitled, "Sark's New Creative Companion". I got captivated by the 'love-at-first-sight' feeling towards this book ... BiG TimE!

I was ready to walk away from the shelf that I was standing in front of. But, a strong force made me stop and check out the other titles by the same author. For some strange reason, I had picked up a book of the same title. I closely looked at the title, again ... and at the bottom right corner of the front cover, it read, "Updated Edition". As I always do, I flipped the book to check the price. It was two hundred pesos more expensive than the one I had in my other arm. Then I thought to myself, "What good is saving this amount if I wouldn't get the most out of this book?" I carefully put the one I had first picked up back into the shelf and grabbed a sealed copy of the Updated Edition.

I walked to the counter and paid for all three books and walked out the store. I had to do that, or else my fickle mind would have gotten the best of me and I'd end up, probably with just one book, if not empty handed when I leave the store.

I spent the rest of the day with my kids and my nephews. When I came back home in the evening, I started reading Sark's book. After reading the first couple of pages, I gently closed the book and examined it. On the back cover, I saw the author's website address. I immediately launched the Internet Explorer on my computer, cleared the address bar and typed in ... http://www.planetsark.com/!!! wOw!!! Its presentation was just as colorful as the book on my lap is. I jumped from one link to the other. I hadn't had enough of it yet but I just had an intense urge of going back to the book. I turn page after every page, reading Sark's inspiring words. I only stopped twice in the middle of reading to speak with my boyfriend on the phone, calling from work ... thousands of miles away from me. I was just so full with awe with the book I was reading that I had read a few pages to him. He was very supportive, as he ALWAYS is.

I had read more than half of the book already. But I have these thoughts in my mind that I just wanted to release. And the only way I can release it is to write it down (or to type, in this case) and post this thrilling experience on my recently started blog.

I was extremely sleepy when I got home tonight. But right now, at 1:12 in the morning, I am so wide awake and just have a truckload of thoughts I want to express. Ideas are sprouting from all directions. I don't even know how or where to inject the others in this essay I'm writing now. I am just so moved by this book that I had purchased this morning.

But ... let's see ... let me stop here! Before I do though, I wish to recommend this book for all of you out there to check out and reflect on ... and BELIEVE ME when I say, THIS WILL DEFINITELY TOUCH THE INNERMOST PART OF YOU! You'll never be sorry in reading this book. This is the kind of book that fits both genders ... all ages ... all races ... every religion ... every soul. Again, the title of the book is "Sark's New Creative Companion - Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit". This is the first of Sark's now, 12 books. [I have inserted a picture of the book on this entry to make it easier for you to find it. The inset next to the purple star is the front cover of the book. :-D]

..:live life to the fullest ... live each day as if it were your last ... you'll never regret it!:..