Have you ever had low
self-esteem?
The self-esteem lies in the valuation that we have of
ourselves. We worry to have a good appearance, for our feelings or for as we
always fit with the world. But sometimes the majority of the people have low
self-esteem, because in the life we have had a bad experience with someone or for
some negatives facts that in our life had happened.
Open House is a book written by Elizabeth Berg, where she emphasizes as a person can has low
self-esteem due in the life we have some changes and we don´t resist these changes. But she shows as we can build
a new life, it doesn´t matter the circumstance.
The protagonist is a woman can´t accept some changes
that happen in her life. She is Samantha.
She is married. And his husband is named David.
She has a son. His name is Travis but they aren´t happy.
They live in the city in a beautiful house. Approximately
Samantha and David have 16 years of married. They can´t be together because the
relationship has enough dilapidated.
Samantha loves enough to his husband and she look for ways to win
his over. She always wears sexy cloth. She always has a good appearance and she
always takes the breakfast at bed. Nevertheless David doesn´t anymore want to be with his wife. He ignores her. They
don’t anymore have sexual relationship. Always there were discussions in the
home and Travis preferred to go to his
friend Ben´s house every Thursday after School to eat dinner and do homework.
One day David
wants to separate and to divorce of Samantha.
Then he decides to leave his house and he goes to live with other woman. Samantha suffers with this decision. She
doesn´t make anything. She always has a careless appearance. She looks for to
his husband and she requests him. She wants to come back with him, but he humiliates
her and he says no. Then Samantha stays
in her house crying every day.
After months Samantha
has a new neighbor. His name is Mrs. Gibbons.
He is a tall, strong and likeable man. He observes the situation of Samantha and he gets that Samantha makes some activities. Mrs. Gibbons likes Samantha but he never insinuates her anything, he only wants to
help her.
Samantha is very happy when she is with Mrs. Gibbons. Then Mrs. Gibbons wins her love and Samantha
decides to give him an opportunity. Some time afterwards they decided to live
together. But one day David his
husband decides to return with Samantha and she says no, that now she is happy
and that bother more. Finally she accepts her new life and she is very happy
with son Travis and Mrs. Gibbons.
I believe that it is a good book. It has a great
message and I am secure that the people are living the same situation; this
book helps us a lot. Above everything, I consider that you must love yourself,
it doesn´t matter if you are tall, small, thin or fat, the most important is to
be happy with our defects and virtues, because the inner beauty is the essence
of your person, because nobody is equal to you.
Read this book and enjoy the life.
By Alejandra García Ángeles
