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For One More Day =

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Photographer: me

Location: my auntie’s house, Indonesia

Editings:

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Framed & Signature

It was a picture I took long time ago in 2006. I gave the title according to a book written by Mitch Albom on the same year, read it and love it. Just few days ago I saw Oprah’s show and there Albom was talking about the book so that’s why I decided to write about it.

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‘Every family is a ghost story . . .’

As a child, Charley Benetto was told by his father, ‘You can be a mama’s boy or a daddy’s boy, but you can’t be both.’ So he chooses his father, only to see him disappear when Charley is on the verge of adolescence. Decades later, Charley is a broken man. His life has been destroyed by alcohol and regret. He loses his job. He leaves his family. He hits rock bottom after discovering he won’t be invited to his only daughter’s wedding. And he decides to take his own life. Charley makes a midnight ride to his small hometown: his final journey. But as he staggers into his old house, he makes an astonishing discovery. His mother – who died eight years earlier – is there, and welcomes Charley home as if nothing had ever happened. What follows is the one seemingly ordinary day so many of us yearn for: a chance to make good with a lost parent, to explain the family secrets and to seek forgiveness

- Publisher’s review

I think Mitch Albom is one of the few authors that can make me cry when reading a book. I love “The Five People You Met in Heaven“, “Tuesdays with Morie” is my all time favorite, and now “For One More Day” – telling a story of a mother’s love, of second chances and of forgiveness. Basically as it says above in the review, it is about Charley who wanted to kill himself but when he was making his last journey home he met his mother, who was supposed to be dead, still alive; acting as if there’s nothing wrong – as if it was just an ordinary day for both of them.

I don’t remember the details very well now already but what I remember is one of the messages of the story, one that was mentioned in Oprah’s show as well: that if you got something you want to say to a person, say it before you never got a chance to say it again. Not many people got a second chance and that’s why we have to live as if it is our last day living.

Oprah asked people in her show if you could have one more day with someone, who would that person be and what would you do to spend the day with him/her? I haven’t lost someone important to me (and I’m grateful for that) so I can’t answer who but many people answered that they will just spend the day as however they usually spend it with the person they love – and tell them lots of times how much they mean to them. And although I myself find it a bit hard to express my love to someone, but I think it is important to say it to those people you love. And that’s one thing the book was talking about.

I personally think the book is awesome; everyone should read it. Especially those who have someone they love (I’m sure everyone have someone they love though…well…) and those who often take their (the people they love’s) love for granted.

Oprah was so amazed by Albom’s book that she produced a special movie based on the book aired I think only in ABC a year ago but I managed to find a link where you can watch it online. I watched it just now and although the quality of the movie itself isn’t good, but it still got the message.  I’d still recommend the book more though.