Soup for the Soul

Hahahaha, please..! I can never get over how many of those 'self help' books my mom has in her bookcase.. actually you'll find some in the drawers, in a packet that she's most likely forgotten it's still in, they're above her headboard, there's most likely even a pocket version in her bag..! Either way, they're all the same, and they're all just pages and pages of crap. (Sorry mom!) When you purchase a 'soup for the soul' book, you have just given someone just like you, (who actually had the energy to sit down, get a publicist and a bunch of regurgitated notes on the stuff) R200 to tell you in black and white - "available now in hard cover!" - what you should do and what you shouldn't do in order to live a life that's fulfilling and brings about contentment within the workplace, with your loved ones and within yourself.. Erm... These authors are scam artists. They haven't figured out the 'secret to life' They're just good multitaskers and probably have the easiest life in the world. No one who has had enough passion on this topic can honestly have had the time to write a book on it. If they lived that difficult life whereby they needed to be told how to stick post it's up all over telling themselves how amazing and capable they are, because they're too run down and tired enough to not know this themselves... then how, on earth, did they find the time to write a book?! Ok, assuming they get it together and have figured out what worked, right? Coz they read it in a book when they needed all the help they could get. So, now my question is.. if you read it in a book and it worked.. Why then.......... write another??? Like I said regurgitating the same old crap with a different pretty colour and calling it something else, is plagiarism! I wish she had saved all her money and just come to me and I'd have printed a million pages off the net and bound it nicely for her, even with a little inscription saying 'Here's the help you need.. and I saved you some bucks so you can just skim over the money issue section' With love... hahaaha. 

So there's an entire range of 'Chicken soup for the Soul' books.. This author's making money if you're depressed, if you're a mom, if you're a dad, if you're a runner, if you have pets, if you're a twin... the list continues. Amazing with all the literature out there, that this is what we spend our money on reading. Other people telling us things we already know.. 

I say screw Chicken Soup for the soul.......... I want real soup...! Hot, feel-good soup with some crusty bread, now that's soup worth spending money on...... let's get more of that.