As far as I remember this is the first book I am reading where in the female character suffers from a family loss in the story. Also, that I am reading a romance story set up in London for the first time. It is quite deviating and interesting in knowing that the location backdrop has changed than the usual United States and it's neighbouring locations.
In the story, the female lead character Joss/Jocelyn is asked to take one day at a time to deal with the pain and not to think too much about the future. For this I have a theory in place. When we come out of parent's protection and start to live on our own, it is quite easy to get carried away with life.
There are two categories in people.
(1) Who always wanted to come out of parent's place and start to earn their own reputation, as my brother. They have a perfect plan on how to live, what to do, how to grow forward in their career.
(2) Who doesn't know what it would be like to move away from parent's. They can never imagine nor they have a perfect plan on what all to do when they are on their own, like me.
From the story just like Joss, even I lived one day at a time. There is no one to tell me what to do and what not to do. Suddenly I started living life systematically with my parents advice creeping in between. Never had I been taught what it would be like in the next step of my life. Like I was never told what Intermediate would be like when I was in school, never taught what Engineering would be like when in Intermediate. Anyways, back to the story.
When we come out of parent's protection and start to live on our own, it is quite easy to get carried away with life. We plan on how to lead our life, plan on how our life should be, what needs to be done for it.. everything is planned. What principles we intent to keep and how to rule our life. I am saying being independant is not bad. Wanted to be away from parent's watchful eyes is also not bad. What is bad is thinking too much about the future, making a list of impossible things which needs to be done in future instead of taking one day at a time. This whole concept is shown in the story of Joss, who sets certain rules about her life and wants to live by them. Of Course, even we tend to be stubborn at times. If the rules are promising enough then it is good. Following rules that we set for ourselves quite not possible. Rather I would say, possible for certain time but not always. As a person, we evolve. So, does the world around us. So, does the people around us. The rules once set by us may not always work even for us. We need to change. Rules need to be changed. For all this to happen we need to live in the present and for that all we have to do is take one day at a time.
In this book, both the lead characters have a lot of money from inheritance which they can spend at their will. This is the first of it's kind and I am not able to relate to. I always came across stories that depict the life of the female leading a normal life and male would come in to her life changing everything and showing her the time of her life. Hero is the one who man's up all the time and treats her as a princess.
Also, I found that this book is all about a girl who fights her own fears and in order to overcome that she takes one day at a time, even though the future looms over her as suggested by the good doctor in the story. I must say after reading Nicholas Sparks I cry a lot. I relate the emotions and feelings there. Though I mentioned earlier that I cannot relate to the rich lead characters of the story, here I am crying over the emotions that spilled in the story 'On Dublin Street'. It is Samantha Young and I ought to remember her name the next time I get to read her work.
To make the long story short, there are some points in the story which are good to read and learn lessons from. Actually the meaning of reading a book is the same. You need to learn some thing or the other at the end of the story. Let the lesson be small or big. There is always some thing in a book that you can look forward to and adapt in your life.
- SwEthA ChAlAmAseTTy
