Erica De Sousa De Sousa itibaren Monbetsu, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japán
This book is a self help book. I read it on the reccomendation from a cousin of mine. It is a book I think anyone and everyone could benefit from. I highly reccomend it to all. Although a self help book, it is written in narrative style, which makes it fun to read. Its main message (or what I gathered it to be) Is to see people as human and not objects. When we view others as having fears, and all the same feelings we ourselves have, we treat them better. In my opionion, it is the same as saying when we can love others as Christ loves them, our heart will be at peace with them. This is not a religious book. As a religious person, I liken it to that analogy. I found the diagrams helpful and love the idea of being in and out of the box, or boxes. You would have to read the book to know what I mean. :) Here is one of my favorite passages as found on page 104: "Although nothing I can do in the present can take away the mistreatment of the past, the way I carry myself in the present determines how I carry forward the memories of those mistreatments. When I see others as objects, I dwell on the injustices I have suffered in order to justify myself, keeping my mistreatments and suffering alive within me. When I see others as people, on the other hand, then I free myself from the need for justification."