A reflection of the book, “The Road Less Travelled” in relation in my life

The Road Less Travelled written by M. Scott Peck was one of the books I had read for my English class. When I started reading it, I was somehow interested but I also got tired and bored of it afterwards. It was a book discussing about different aspects in love. It has no story that’s why I didn’t like it that much in the beginning. But after a few days not reading it, I again gained a cause to read the last section. It is because my block mates talk a lot about it. There are actually four sections of the book, Discipline, Love, Religion and Spiritual Growth, and Grace.

            I liked all the sections especially when the author talks about his experiences and the cases of his patients. On the first section, he wrote that there are four principles to gain self-discipline. These are delaying gratification, acceptance of responsibility, definition of truth, and balancing. On the section of Love, he emphasized the difference of falling in love, and loving someone genuinely. Falling in love is not love. While loving someone genuinely is effortful and extending one’s self to another. The section of Religion and Spiritual Growth says that spiritual growth needs full of effort and a lot of time in order to obtain. Cases of different persons like Kathy were also written on this section. And on the last section, the Grace, it says that grace is given to all of us just that sometimes, we regret it. Serendipity says that grace is a gift for all even if we don’t ask for it. Schronicity is when an event happens at or almost at the same time in different people. The section of Grace also shows that the original sin is laziness and that all of us are lazy even if we don’t notice it. Our unconscious mind is wiser than we are because what our conscious mind doesn’t want to take, it gives us and informs us. Alpha and Omega was also discussed on this section because God is the beginning with whom he made us and He is also the end because our evolution would end on God. There are still a lot of topics discussed on the book, not only these things I’ve mentioned.

            Now, I regret the days I haven’t read it because it gives a lot of information to me and to other readers. It is a really amazing book and as same as its author to be able to write and understand this matters of life. By the way, the author is a great psychologist from the west and I make sure that all of the cases he shared from this book would really relate on one or more of the events on our life. If you guys want to learn and be inspired about life, I suggest, recommend, and tell you to start looking for this book, The Road Less Travelled by M. Scoot Peck.