Elizabeth Gilbert, at the age of 40, after a painful divorce, is now all alone. One of the most traumatic, emotionally-stressed experiences in life is divorce. It means a painful, life-changing, irreversible n permanent change in life-style n thinking from then on, either for good or bad. All your past dreams are shattered. You have to start anew.

Where does her future lie? She wanted to forget n leave everything behind.She was willing to spend a year traveling with time to think things over n discover new things. She said."I used to have this appetite of a quest for life, and now it is just gone."

First thing is to pamper yourself by eating to forget. What better place than Italy. Here she adopted the Italian mantra of "the sweetness of doing nothing" ...the beauty of doing nothing, living in the moment, which temporarily helps one to get over past hurts n to settle in. But it does not last. After eating too much, the taste dulls. After doing nothing for too long, life gets meaningless.

Eating alone does not satisfy. Doing nothing alone also does not fulfill. She has to seek spirituality. India is the home of yoga n meditation. Maybe she can find inner peace there.There she may find a new quest for life, a new purpose for living. She stays in an ashram in India....trying to purify her mind n heart but to no avail. A fellow ashram resident was a man from Texas, who had lost a lot of things of his own making n who was trying to make peace with his life.This Richard from Texas clashes with Liz. He mocks her n call her "groceries". Both are lost and in the same situation, trying to reexamine themselves, to face their fears, to seek peace n try to grow..
But it is a tiring thing to sit all day n meditate. She needs love. Only true love can make her happy.

She heard of the small island of Bali in Indonesia. Many tourists come here to relax n seek love n nature. Here she came into contact with a traditional healer n a fortune-teller.

Natural healing says, " Our bodies are made of the 5 elements of nature...earth, wind, fire, water and space. When the 5 elements in our body are in balance, then so too are our bodies. Otherwise we will experience different types of conditions. Exercising daily, eating locally grown foods as much as possible, and thinking positive thoughts also contribute towards good skin."

Sounds good, especially positive thinking n healthy foods n daily exercise.
But believing that our bodies are controlled by 5 elements are totally wrong. "From dust we are made n to dust we shall return." Without lust, there is no corruption. Without sin, there is no death or disease.

Also here she met her Brazilian lover. Jose Nunes already had grown-up children.He owns a factory in Brazil. He suffered a broken heart once. She has come a long way since she was a 15 year old girl getting in n out of relationship.

Murphy, the director and still unmarried, said, " Never too late to reinvent yourself, to try to be happy. If you are in a bad relationship, try and get out of it, and if you do not like where you are living, try to change it."

Only true love can fulfill.
Her real journey should have been a journey to seek God, to know God.
Only the truth can give her true freedom n fulfillment n happiness.
Only God can give her the strength to live n be happy.
Only His ways can truly satisfy.
"Drink from the well that never runs dry." The Samaritan woman found the living water.
"whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life." (John 4:14)

background:
The story chronicles the author's travels to Italy (where she eats. Italians eat too much), India (where she prays at an ashram) and Bali in Indonesia (where she finds love).
The trip is financed upfront by her book deal...which means it was not really the sudden decision of a disillusioned woman to pack up and see the world.
Elizabeth Gilbert is a writer. She is a woman who has everything: a husband, a best friend, a house and a good career. Yet she finds herself unhappy and discontent with life n she had an affair with a man. As she was going through her divorce, she tried to make her relationship with the other man works but failed. Hurt n angry, she decided to travel for a year to discover herself. Her husband Steven pleads with her to take the self-discovery journey while still staying married to him, but she walked out on him. She has to hurt someone who loves her in order for her to liberate herself and find spiritual strength. It takes a lot of courage to walk out of her marriage just because she is unhappy.
Elizabeth has been in and out of relationship since she was 15, and never has the time to find herself.
She spurns the younger David for the older Brazilian.

Full moon party at Koh Phangan Island in Thailand.
Lit by a beautiful full moon, this party has become renowned n revered for teenagers from Britain.
Every month, 10,000 youngsters gather here n many are British middle-class school leavers
for whom a trip to this island has become a rite of passage.
Well, that's what their parents would hope as they wave their off-spring at the airport.
What do their parents think?
Privately educated Mike Cole, 19, from Exeter, said,"They love the fact that I am seeing the world.
They don't realise what it's really like. Mum thinks I am sitting around having a glass of wine n a nice, healthy seafood dinner."
After finishing her A-Levels, Jess Bainbridge, 20, from Windsor, worked for a local council to save for a gap year.
"I came here for the party n it's brilliant. Mum did not want me to come as things can be dangerous, but
I am not worried."
By midnight, the beach is filled with thousands of revelers dancing in the sand, on wooden benches and specially erected stages. There are around 20 pubs, hotels n restaurants on the beachfront. Each place belts out loud ear-splitting dance music.
What exactly is the lure of this beach to teenagers who are, after all, meant to be Britain's brightest?
It's the full moon party, a night of free drinking and sex. And the night scene is lit by a beautiful full moon.
Bo, a bar worker, said, " People from Europe are not like us. They are out of control. They have sex on the beach and don't care who sees them. They are crazy."
Later you will see hundreds of inert bodies strewn along the shore. Behind them, many more youngsters are slumped, their heads behind their knees, vomiting into the sea. There are men urinating into the sea, and an array of naked couples bobbling up and down in the water.