Last month I ran a competition asking you guys what your favourite book was. I got some fantastic responses, but no one mentioned my favourite book. I don’t know if any of you have read it or maybe it didn’t make the same impact as it did on me, so I’m taking this opportunity to post about my favourite book.

I’ve read loads of books in my life, I love reading and I’ve recently given up on some time-consuming hobby’s that were not returning anything, so that I could focus again on the important things for me. One of those things is reading. After I finished watching the whole Game of Thrones series, I’ve now started re-reading the books, I read every evening before sleeping and I read on the train to-and from work.

I’ve read diaries from holocaust survivors (one from my grandmothers’ brother), I’ve read novels, history books, Harry Potter, biographies, children’s stories, religious texts, guide books, fantasy stories, but no book has made such a big impact on my life as:

This book is about a student who returns to his former teacher and who then learns about the most important lessons in life.

The book will make you re-evaluate life and think about the things that are really important. For me, moving to Switzerland was something I did, because I’d read this book. The book did not tell me to take abrupt risks, but it tells you to look for the things in life that are worth your efforts. Love those who love you, spend time with those who are important to you, cherish those who show an interest in you and most importantly, don’t forget to live. Life is short, enjoy it as long as you can. Take it serious, but also don’t go under in the rat-race and always remember to live, you only have one life, live it now!

When I was dating, I gave this book as a present to some ’potentials’, you know what my wife answered when I gave her the book ’I know it and I’ve read it’, that to me was another signal that I’d found someone special, who was like me and valued the same things in life as I do.

I’ve read the book several times in my life, I guess the first time must’ve been shortly after it came out and admittedly I had to re-read it before I really grasped what a gem this book is. It is by all means a small and short book, but like Morrie it packs a punch.

I have a spare copy as you can see (my own copy) and I’m going to give it away to one of you. All you have to do is upvote this post and leave a comment below why you should receive such a gem? Of all the valid entries I will choose the winner a week after this post has gone up.

Thanks and good luck,

Doron