I haven't quite had the energy nor time to write an entry on this book since I finished reading it (again). But I realised that I couldn't properly start reading (again) The Five People You Meet In Heaven until I jotted my thoughts down on this book.
In a nutshell, the whole book is about someone screwing up his life, family and what not really badly - and is given the luckiest chance of his life; to meet his mother for a day, an experience that in the end changed his life before he passed away 5 years later.
I thought the plot was pretty good, but I was more touched by Chick's (protagonist) mother. How she yearned for such a good life for him. How she tried her best - despite the divorce - to provide a good childhood experience for her two children, Charley (Chick) and Roberta his younger sister. With this yearning, added on to her love for her children, she tried her best to raise them to be good and respectable people. Unfortunately, her husband didn't quite bother about how to raise the children properly, inadvertently ruining their lives.
It's strange in a way. Chick got so much of his mother's love that he felt a little sick of it because of all the hugs and kisses and expressions of love. He even resented her at times, and hurt her several times when she tried to make him and his sister happy or when she tried to stand up for him.
I pondered and reflected upon how Chick was so lucky - to have had a mother that genuinely cared for him so much, rather than just lump all her desries and what she couldn't achieve when she was younger. All the small stories about how Chick's mother tried so hard to be a good mother - and how Chick ruined all her effort: Bottomline, we often take what we have for granted. It's hard to find a mother or father (and moreso both) who truly loves you and supports you for what you are. To those of you out there who have such a set of precious parents, you're very blessed.
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