when i decided to read?

Okay! 'Think Like a Monk',I don't know how should I start.

Let me ask some questions to me :-D

How I knew about the book?

How I got it and what was the motivation to read it?

Okay! At first I am very grateful to have a brother like Vipin (my cousin brother),who is interested to improve him day by day by good habits.

You all will think, everyone is.

No! Not everyone, everyone is not making daily efforts to improve. May be everyone thinks to improve themselves but I think interested is the one who make efforts . 

           Now come back to the story,so we(me and vipin) usually talk about good books (Actually He is younger than me but sometimes older than me by thoughts).

           Once we were talking about the book "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill. He was reading that book during those days and I just completed "The power of your subconscious mind" and was thinking about to start that one.

At that time he told me that you should read "Think Like a Monk".

 [conversation: 

Vipin: yarr tu think like a monk pdheye,shandar book hai baki think and grow rich bhi bdiya h.

Me: Tt pdh li k?

Vipin: Nah,but mn bero hai bdiya h.

Me: abhi toh jee koni kr ryo bs abhi last "Think and grow Rich" pdhungi].

           At that time I ignored his suggestion by thinking that 'yaar bhut ho gyi non fiction,nhi pdha jayega etna gyan'.

         Then I decided not to read "Think Like a Monk" [By the way everytime when I ignored some good things,I found them again in my way, Hahaha! The same happened with "Think Like a Monk"].

       When we  talking,that was lockdown period of 2020,after sometime I got the reopen notice of colleges and I moved to delhi.

          Delhi,the city of many dreams and different vibes.

     I went on 1st Feb 2021 and completed my 7th(last) day of quarentine period (that was totally a formality by hostel).After that I decided to go 'Kamla Nagar' (nearest market),just to have happy and free vibes. Me and Sunidhi (my friend) went to kamla without having any intention to shop something except regular shorts. I remember we ate sweetcorn,took some shorts,visited 24*7 and bought some fruits,when we were returning,as usually I started to stare at book stoles[Hahaha,at that time Sunidhi was like 'yrr!abhi toh h na tere pas books,vo pdh le' but afsos i ignored those words at that time and went toward a stole].

           Many books, perfectly managed except three on the top: Becoming,The 5AM CLUB and Think Like A Monk.

       I thought to buy Becoming, but suddenly I found those words in my mind 'yrr!abhi toh h na tere pas books,vo pdh le'. Then suddenly I thought to gift Think Like A Monk to my brother (Because I know he wanted to read that book). At that moment I was in Peace that I buied a new book and happy that I am going to gift something to my brother. 

        After some time we came back to the hostel happily and during that night,I opened the book without any intention to read this,I turned the first page and found a line "for my wife, who is more monk than I will ever be". [I felt 'the wow moment']

              Yrr first time I read this type of line by a writer. He gave the whole credit to his wife. I drew the pencil from the table and put a lovely heart ♡ near those words [you can see in the attached image].

That was the moment when I decided to read the book.

 

Then I read Contents on the next page,I found them attractive and a little different from other famous books which I have. After that the journey begun.

Now I completed the book but decided to re-read it to write blogs about every chapter,I hope at this time, I will understand more.

I don't gift it to my brother ;D.

Okay! Well,I am not that bad...when I came back from Delhi,last day I bought another copy of that book and finally I gifted it to him. [I know he is blessed to have a sister like me ;P]

 

So this was the starting of the journey of Think Like A Monk.