Thanks to a friend who'd posted this book's review on her instagram. Once I read "Do not rush. Get ready to relax and unwind." as a highlight, I think I need this book to enlighten me, who always happen to get through a chaotic day, inevitably.

Have you ever feel that time flies really fast that you cannot digest everything at once? You barely enjoy the moment. You listen to a song but you're not appreciate every tone on it, you eat an ice cream but you can't tell the taste, it was a new year's eve and then bam... it's the end of the year again. Sounds familiar? That happens because you're not living in the moment, you've taken everything for granted. This world turns you into inhumane and not feel a thing. 

Picture 1: Book Cover of Sloth Philosophy

So, this book will teach us how to live our life in a sloth way. Sloth is the slowest animal on earth, They spend most of their lives hanging upside down in the trees. The analogy of a Sloth from this book is trying to illustrate how we could use this Sloth Philosophy to slow the fuck down, no need to rush about evertyhing. Especially for every hustlers out there, the question is: What are you chasing? What's the rush? What is it, actually? Repeat this questions whenever you're feeling overwhelmed or stressed out.

Fact about Sloth:

"Sloths travel about 40 yards per day or about 6cm per second. They don't care how long it takes to get anywhere. They're chill, slow and steady wins the race remember, if Sloths were into racing – which they're not."

There are five aspects that we can learn from Sloth-Guru that should be considered:

1. Health and Wellness

2. Breath Deeply

3. Seek The Quiet Place


When was the last time you're on a quiet place and all you do is just stare at the stars? Nah, been a long time ago right? Skygazing will soothe your nerves instantly. Stop for a moment, and look up for thirty seconds per day is enough.

4. Don't let the hates get you down

5. Embrace Forest Bathing

Picture: To the bone (2017)

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To tell you the truth guys, this isn't the best movie of the year or the best movie I've ever watched nor winning an oscar award. The rate is only 6.9/10 on Internet Movie Database. But what I try to tell you is How this story can changed your perspective. 

To the bone has competition at Sundance Film Festival at first and then released on January 2017 distributed by Netflix. 

The cast is my favorite girl Lily Collins as Ellen/Eli who suffered from an eating disorder called Anorexia. In order to suit for the role, Lily had to lose weight. She revealed that She had been trying to lose weight under the supervision of a Nutritionist and surrounded by supported environment on set. What an effort, Lily.

The story is about Ellen who have been battling her twentys as Anorexia Nervosa patients, and showed no progress every each day. She has a complicated life and broken family that gave the bad impact to her mental. Eating disorder sounds unreasonable, right? I mean what the heck, it's only about bite and chew and swallow. Beside, food is tasty... so what's the problem? I admit, I was being ignorant at first but what we need to know is THIS IS THE REAL ISSUES  for some people who have an eating disorder. They get really obsessed with low weight, to be supper thin, the fear of gaining weight haunting them everytime they face the food. It makes them refuse to swallow the food. Otherwise, they're gonna eating on table and spewing the food right after. Not only that, they usually exercise just to make sure not a single calories enter the body. Sounds scarry enough?

Struggling through the phase, Ellen stepmother's finally found the best doctor in town who always succeed handling his patients. Ugh this is my favorite part.. Dr Beckham played by Keanu Reeves *lovestruck*. Long story short, Ellen agree to grant her family's wishes to attend an in-patient program. She moves to a house and lived with six other patients there. Dr. Beckham feels Ellen hate herself and her life, so he find a way to make Ellen feel like a brand new person. He asked Ellen to changed her name into Eli. She bond with Dr. Beckham very well. One day, Dr. Beckham invited them to a secret field trip. They come to a dark room full of artificial rain. The meaning of the rain is He wants them to be grateful with their lives and feel the lives itself. Not long enough though, An accident happen at the house, it make her thinking that this treatment won't work for any of them. Her belief of Dr Beckham slowly fading and breaks into fragments. Her body is getting worse and worse every single day. She shrunk into chronic depression.

This is what Dr Beckham said to her when they had an argument before Eli leaves the house.

Eli return to her mother's home. But on that moment, she finally find a good reason to stay alive again.

I bought this book on June 2012. I ordered at the bookstore that I used to buy book (Because I had a member card there, so it gave me alot benefit). I've been waiting for a month, because this book was shipping from US and it costs me USD 33 (I know right, it made my purse screaming and bleeding). I counted the days because I've been wanting this book so bad... And when the woman from bookstore called me to inform that my book has arrived, I remember I asked my bf to went on a date with me so I can took the book from the bookstore hahaha. I was like a kid who get a bucket of candy on halloween if I have a new book on my hand.

This book is reaaally stunning, I barely forgot that I lost my allowance for a week just to afford this book. The only reason is because.... man, it's Tokyo! The city that I've been dreaming for my whole life has been drawn in an aesthetically way with Florent Chavouet. He lived in Japan for six months during his girlfriend's work internship in Tokyo. Instead of doing nothing on their tiny apartment, he took the chance and rode the bike that he stole from the neighborhood to observed, captured, and drawn this busy city into several sections such as neighborhood, the ambience, the inhibitants and their eccentric-fashion, the food, the maps, the train, and some other petty things in hilarious way of adorable sketch, anecdotes and sarcastic comments. It's funny but quite informative for a guidebook.

Check this out.

• The Neighborhood

• The Inhabitants

• The Interlude

Isn't it overwhelming? There are still a looot of pages but I am not gonna put every pages here, you should buy it for yourself. Believe me it's worth it especially if you love Japan and every detail about it.

Despite all my books on the shelves from the best author like Stephen King, Murakami, JD Salinger, despite all my outerspace-encyclopedias (which is a lot), this book still my favorite one after all this time.

I gave this book five starsssss!