This book is a must-read, must-have book. As I say, “It’s on the required reading list.”
This is one of my all-time favorites, from an all-time favorite author. I’ve been a fan of Shel Silverstein’s books “Where The Sidewalk Ends” and “A Light In The Attic” which are filled with wonderfully wacky poems like Sarah Silvia Cynthia Stout and My Mother Said I’d Lose My Head. I raised my son on these two books – among others like Douglas Adams’ Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy five-book trilogy, Asimov, Heinlein and more.
You will find The Missing Piece Meets The Big O in the children’s section along with the other Silverstein books. Make no mistake, this is not a children’s book! It would be appropriate and entertaining to a child, and if consistently read to the child until those awkward teen years when the hormones start kicking in it would be immensely helpful to them.
No, this book is about healthy relationships.
It’s a little book, only a few pages, maybe a 15 minute read. It’s couched in simple line drawings and plain language typical of Shel Silverstein. But, it has a profound message for what it takes to have a healthy relationship; for what it means to have a healthy relationship. This book solidified for me the observation that I call the great irony in life – that you cannot HAVE a healthy relationship until you don’t NEED it. You cannot truly love another until you truly love yourself. The reality, if not the implementation, is as simple as that.
Buy this book. Read this book, again and again. If you have kids, read it to your kids, again and again – not so that they’ll get it but so that YOU’LL “get it.” All the while, contemplate what it means to be “whole.”
By the way, watch the “Relationships” video on this page (click here), which is along the same lines…