I like reading; I actually love reading. I think the written word was the greatest invention of man. Better than the wheel, honestly. Though, if I didn’t have a car with wheels, living in the middle of nowhere as I do at the present time, how would I get my books!!! But you know what I mean. I read this great book last week by Emma Holly: Strange Attractions. Now I know that she does write erotic fiction, and the title is a little risqué, but I have to tell you, I LOVED this book. Not for the romantic scenes, which are normally my favorite part of an Emma Holly. No, I liked this book for one specific aspect of the story. One of the lead male characters, B.G. Grantham is a physicist, and his theory is that every person is a quantum being. When it seems like the world is working against you, for example if you’re late for work even though you awoke and left eh house in more than enough time to arrive on time but the woman in front of you at the coffee shop takes twenty minutes to make up her mind and by doing so makes you late, it’s not really the world working against you. It’s the world living up to your expectations. As a quantum being, if you believe that you’re a messed up person who can’t get life right, that’s the way your life will go. The again, if you believe that you’re a wonderful person, then just by believing in yourself, things will start to go your way. I think that’s a great philosophy. Remember being in high school and hating the girl (or guy) who always came out on top. And s/he seemed even cocky about that belief. Because s/he had that belief, everything did go her/his way. It’s always said that we’re each our own worst critic. But I wonder… If we all believed in our selves with the same consistency as the bane of our high school existence, how much better would our world work for us? I think just the few chapters that dealt with B.G.’s theory of quantum beings was easier to understand and helped me more than any self-help book I ever read. Though, maybe I shouldn’t say that, as one of my college professors, Theresa Foy DiGeronimo, co-authored a self-help book that I did find very enlightening.
