Log #1

Log #1

Title: P.S. I love you

Pages: ~p.87

Holly and Gerry had been a sweet and happy couple. One day, however, Gerry passed away and left Holly alone. Holly was extremely stuck in deep sorrow and the grief and solitude overwhelmed her because he played important roles of her best friend, lover, and soul mate. A few days after that, Holly’s mom asked her to collect the package which says at the top “The List.” It contained envelopes labeled months on them. Then Holly realized that Gerry wanted her to open these envelopes according to the labeled month: one instruction for one month. As a result, Holly tried to follow Gerry’s instruction. In the process of it, she felt relieved and first found she could be at ease without Gerry’s company.

When I first saw the title of this book, I thought it was just a romantic love story, and maybe about a boy pursuing a girl and interwove some touching and cute plot. However, when I flicked the pages, I found I would definitely cry for this book because I knew Gerry was not there anymore. So I try to imagine how painful it would be to lose my beloved man forever. Would I lose the purpose of living all of a sudden and mess up with my life like Holly did? Can I adapt to the new life that has nothing to do with the one who was the most important person in my life? Imagine this scenario is like imagine you lose one of your vital organs. How can people bear such kind of pain? Fortunately, Gerry’s List was such a life buoy for Holly. But for me, although it’s soothing to know my husband has been dead but left me something, it’s still unbearable to think of the fact that he is not there. For we could have had a dinner together tonight, he could have slept by my right side, he could have been there…. There are so many could-have events but I can no longer have any of them. How dreadful it would be!

Cecelia Ahern’s words have the power to make us enter the emotion she wants us in. For example, when Cecelia carefully describes Holly’s feeling after she finally finished dealing with Gerry’s funeral and tried to calm herself down, it’s amazing that I breathed in and out along with Holly and then I felt the same feeling of peace. It is the author’s power of words. She uses her words to direct me into the emotion of the characters in the story, and then I can go through the situation. I like this feeling.