What I Know for Sure

June Pick of SOL Book Club. 2020

The author of this book, What I Know for Sure, is Oprah Winfrey, and she used to be one of my favorite talk show hosts when I was a student of a university. At that time, I really enjoyed watching her show, and it was one of the ways to improve my English listening comprehension. This is why I chose this book as the first book of our reading gathering.

" What I know for sure is that 
speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we all have. "

This book is a type of an essay about lives she has been meeting through her show, books she has been reading, experiences she has accumulated, friends she has hung out and careers she has been looking for. In this book, she is talking about all the issues she has encountered during her life, sharing her precious advice and awareness with readers as to them. And those advice and awareness are so persuasive that every reader can feel sympathy with her thought and experience. Here is one of the parts I really like about how to deal with her daily life.

She is saying in the book that life is full of miracles if you see the world in the positive attitude. In this book, 

“ Anything can be a miracle 
if you choose to see it that way. In my own life, miracles often involve the simplest things like being able to run five miles in less than fifty minutes. A miracle is watching a sunset the color of strained peaches and seeing it turn to raspberries by the end of my evening walk...”

are said. So she is introducing one of the ways how to express her positive ways as to her routine life by writing a gratitude journal every day. She thinks everything happening around her is a kind of miracle, and she is trying to show her gratitude to her life sincerely. The final touching phrase about a miracle is: 

“ If I know nothing else for sure, 
I know that the big miracles we are waiting on are happening right now in front of us, at every moment, with every breath. Open your eyes and heart and you will begin to see them. "

These phrases are every impressive, and I made mind my mind to follow her advice, live like everything is a miracle. Then I started writing my gratitude journal every day.

Expressing my gratitude every day seems like filling and refreshing my routine, which used to be just tiring and tedious things, with joy. This positive way of seeing my life starts changing my life little by little. I can feel the change in my heart, and the gratitude gives me the idea that everything happening around me is a miracle. It makes, I think, my life more alive and more meaningful than before.

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In my own life, doing or not doing something is only up to me, and what I know for sure after reading this book is what can change me is only me myself. If I want to change anything around me or what I am, I should do it right now for myself. I think this is how to live the wise life if I do not want to regret it in the end of my life.

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