And there are famous chinese and western commentors that seem to agree with me on it. =)
http:// vip.book.sina.com.cn/book/chapter_149193_101371.html
http://bitchmagazine.org/article/eat-pray-spend
Eat, Pray, Love is a book and a movie about a woman who ditched her husband, go travelling to find herself, which in fact is to have a long vocation full of self-indulgence, eating in Italy, so-called praying in India and finding a rich man in Bali, and then go on to claim that she eventually reached self enlightenment .
The story is an insult to anyone out there in this world who take enlightenment seriously, who conduct real studies on philosophy, science, religion, art and hard meditation on life and everyday experience to be able to even just a little bit more enlightened. It's also an insult to real feminism, no matter how this work strives to pitch independence of women, coz in the end of the story, the only thing that seemed to rescue the main character is still a rich man and a romantic relationship. I am not saying feminism is to reject men totally, but to have a collected, independent and strong spirit so that man and romantic relationships are not solely the kind of things that a woman ever worries about. And for any women that don't understand what responsibility means can not even declare herself to be a mature adult let alone the equality that true feminism entails.
So honestly I don't buy into any of those. Unfortunately we are living in a real world, not everyone is privileged and financially adequate enough to go on a trip like that and not work at all for a year or so to find oneself. The story is about self-indulgence, it's after all another cheap promoter of global consumerism at best, shopping your way to enlightenment, spending is helpful means to find yourself, girls.
I'd rather suffer my way to enlightenment. Simple life, no Gucci bags, no iphone, no expensive trips, no fancy restaurants. Through the great wisdom of Laozi and Plato, I try to realize where I am coming and where I am going. I embrace pain. It is my great fortune. I hold on to my belief. "Who speaks of victory", as once said by Rainer Maria Rilke, "Enduring is everything"!
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