"Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend."
Liz Gilbert constantly remembers the time she found herself in a deep place of depression. This constant reminder that you always have a friend with you provides the author with someone she is able to rely on whenever she needs a friend. After her divorce and the end of another relationship she battles depression which is a tough fight. After getting the help she needed she embarks on a trip of self exploration. During times throughout the trip, but specifically in the beginning she was reminded of dark days. This was due to the fact that she was in a foreign country that spoke a different language and was there by herself. This is important to the story because throughout the novel she is able to relate back to this specific moment when she came to this realization. At these times he thought back to the time where she was able to pick herself up and call on herself to be a friend. I think that this is something that everyone is able to relate to. Even if it was just once in a person’s life he or she needed to rely on themselves. It is very important, as Gilbert points out, that we recognize ourselves as a friend that is there through the good times and the bad.
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