"Peregrinatio"

Today the last copy of my book landed in the hands of a reader. This is a place for me as an author to reflect. Nothing in life is as it seems. Things we put our hopes in disappoints first and things we expect nothing from gives growth. However, the more difficult the road to the goal, the greater the author's fulfillment at its end. This place is also a time to thank everyone who supported my work and especially my soulmate. My soulmate gave me a small jar of quotes. The jar said "Read Me When..." and below it there were suggestion notes: Happy, Thankful, Angry, Anxious, Lonely, Sad. While writing the book, I took out one quote each day. Moving from Happy to Anxious to Angry to Loney to Sad. And because I also keep a journal, I noticed while browsing through it that I had never once reached for the orange note with the quote: Thankful. I thought, how is that possible? Thankfulness is the foundation from which you should start and end your day. We all have more things in our lives to be grateful for than we realize. Sometimes work is difficult because we don't start with gratitude and sometimes it's impossible to finish because we don't finish with it. My literary adventure began with a note Happy and ended with a note Thankful. I also want to thank my friend, who is a wonderful influencer, for a few blunt words. I think that "bookworm" is a beautiful term, although I understand that it was used here in a different context and the intentions were good. Let's not forget that some "bookworms" are the greatest companions of stories told by books, even if we don't read them. Let's not lead to the "destruction" of literature in favor of a whim such as a boring Instagram full of irrelevant facts that do not develop a person either intellectually or emotionally. Let us seek the company of people who allow us to blossom intellectually and those with whom we have at least one book in common that we could talk about. Books bring people together, drawing the greatest friendships in our lives because they define the person we are dealing with.