A Place Called Here by Cecilia Ahern

“I can only assume that there’s only one thing more frustrating than not being able to find someone, and that’s not being found. I would want someone to find me, more than anything.” ― Cecelia Ahern, A Place Called Here

 

my old stained book 

I was going through Postsecret.com when I found this artwork that reminded me so much of Cecilia Ahern's book. I loved the story so much that I read it twice and which is why I'm bypassing my current read by Maeve Binchy. 

(Source: Postsecret.com)

I just associated the two together because of the socks since there was a line in the book about how searching for love is as similar to looking for a missing pair of sock.  But then again, the book was more than just about searching, it's all about being found. I remember the feeling I had when I read this book.

People can get lost in more ways than one. Sometimes they get lost even when they are right in front of us, or us being lost even under the protective eye of those who love us. It's not even about being physically lost, because I think a lot of people battle more each day not to get lost in themselves. And if by some funny luck we do lose our way, we want someone to find us or not ever give up looking. 

The book was written in an no nonsense way. It portrayed the idea that things or people that get lost go to place where lost things go. What was going through my head was, if there is that place where all things go once lost - then by essence they are not lost at all, they are just simply displaced from a place of familiar origin to a place of unknown to both those who got lost and those that lost them. But that is me trying to analyze the literal view of what the story painted. After reading it twice, I've always thought that the message was more than how people will initially comprehend it. 

Being lost means there are two roads open of which one has the choice of taking. It's a road of going back to the place we disappeared from or the road to a place of accepting that one is simply here and now.

::: I used the word lost a lot lol and I've lost my focus after blogspot auto-corrected Cecilia Ahern's surname to Hernia.