The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson

Reading a self-help book was my New Year's resolution (weird, I know), but  I was putting it off since the beginning of the year because my attention span is like that of a puppy, I loose interest way too quickly so reading a self-help book was a challenge for me in itself. Somehow, after going back and forth several times, I took the first step and here I am, with the review of my first ever self-help book. 

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson is a novel which not only endeavours to make us perceive the right way of living our lives, but it also makes us aware of many such truths which we probably used to know our entire life but we never paid much heed to them. Whether it is the truth about our happiness or about our problems, the mystery hidden behind our sufferings, the wrong decision that we usually ends up making in our lives and the biggest truth in the world that people never want it to prove itself to be true - Death, Mark has presented all these facts to us in this nine chapter book in such a way that we start finding life a little easier. This book presents such a perspective of life, which makes you think may be life isn't what you used to think it is. This book serves as the therapist who will not sugarcoat and tell you forthright, 'Life sucks and will suck even more as you grow up. In order to be happy you'll have to go through hell but happiness is still not guaranteed and that problems, will never stop knocking at your door' but it will also tell you that 'It's ok to be miserable, it's ok to be wrong, it's ok to not know who you are and what your purpose is, it's ok!' 

Mark does not only attempts to teach us the subtle art of not giving a F*ck but also tells us the things we need to give a F*ck about. Mark teaches us, through his life experiences, that it's ok to fuck up here and there but you can still find your way around and live a better life. 

I read this book with the hope of changing my life which was stupid, I get it. But I'm going to take away a lot of good things from this book. For this eleven days journey (yeah it took me that long because I wanted to savour it) Mark became the therapist that I never had. I've never been to a therapist before(I'm making through life, somehow) but I always wanted to know how it would work out for me , the therapy thing. I believe myself to be too difficult to accept things and often don't believe people or what they say. I had my fair share of doubts while reading this book, but Mark took me on a ride and it's safe to say that it was one of  the most eye opening experience of my life.

To wrap it up, I would like to thank Mark for giving me this new and a little twisted perspective on life. This was a nice session. 

Thankyou!