As I slept after finishing 250 pages of Matthew Perry’s memoir Friends, Lovers, and The Big Terrible Thing, I wasn’t ready to wake up to the news of his passing. I felt like I was with him until yesterday, in my head, of course, and today he’s gone.
I had just finished learning a lot about him in this book and was looking forward to learning more. Perry wanted to get married and have children, like he always wanted, but who knew there wouldn’t be anything more? Talk about time, right?
For me it was also a personal loss, as for the rest of his fans around the world. The program was already a success when I was born; Naturally, I learned the show much later in life. Watching the show after 18 years of being made, I was surprised by how excited people were about it the entire time. Now I understand the commotion.
Once a Friends fan, always a Friends fan. So, as a tribute to the recently deceased Perry and to thank him for all the laughs, I share here some excerpts from his book that not only touch our hearts but also give us an inside look at the life, struggles and struggles of the genius by comedian Perry. and triumphs.
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- Why did you write these memoirs?
- Personal feelings
- When he had his first drink at 14 years old!
- His struggle with love
- Your encounter with God
Why did you write these memoirs?
In the book’s foreword, Perry shares a lot about his current life. And a big part of it was addiction. She writes: “I don’t write all this so that no one will feel sorry for me; I write these words because they are true. I’m writing to you because someone else may be confused by the fact that they know they should stop drinking (like me, they have all the information and understand the consequences), but still can’t stop drinking. You are not alone, my brothers and sisters. (In the dictionary, under the word “addict,” there should be a photo of me looking around, very confused.)
Personal feelings
He wrote a lot about loneliness and the struggle to form a romantic relationship. One thing that stood out to me was this: “My mind is ready to kill me, and I know it. I am constantly filled with a lurking loneliness, a longing, clinging to the notion that something outside of me will fix me. But I had everything the outside had to offer!”
When he had his first drink at 14 years old!
He writes: “I realized that, for the first time in my life, nothing was bothering me. The world made sense; He wasn’t crooked or crazy. I was complete and at peace. I had never been happier than in that moment. This is the answer, I thought; This is what I was missing. This must be how normal people feel all the time. I have no problem. Everything is over. I don’t need attention. I am taken care of; I’m fine. I was happy. I had no problems during those three hours. I was not abandoned; I wasn’t fighting with my mom; I wasn’t doing badly in school; I didn’t wonder what life was about or my place in it. “He took everything.” Now imagine a 14-year-old boy telling you all this. It’s more than sad.
His struggle with love
Perry had difficulty forming romantic relationships and talks about it often in the book.
On one occasion, he finally confesses: “I have spent my life being attracted to women who were not available. You don’t have to have a degree in psychology to realize that this has something to do with my relationship with my mother. My mother captivated every room she entered. I vividly remember being in an elegant ballroom when she was about six years old, and when my mother walked in, every head in the room turned. I wanted her to turn and look at me in those moments, but she was working and couldn’t; It only took me thirty-seven years to achieve it.”
Your encounter with God
In the chapter All Heaven Breaking Loose, he shares an encounter with what he calls god. He writes: “I had been in the presence of God. He was sure of it. And this time he had prayed for the right thing: help.”
He describes it vividly: “I could see the color differently, the angles were of different magnitude, the walls were stronger, the ceiling higher, the trees hitting the windows more perfect than ever, their roots connected through the ground to the planet and vice versa. within me, a great connection created by an ever-loving God, and beyond, a sky that had once been theoretically infinite was now unknowably infinite. I was connected to the universe like I had never been before. Even the plants in my house, which I had never noticed before, seemed perfectly focused, more beautiful than they could possibly be, more perfect, more alive.”
“I stayed sober for two years based solely on that moment. God had shown me a slice of what life could be. He had saved me that day and for every day, no matter what. I had become a seeker, not only of sobriety and truth, but of him as well. He had opened a window and closed it, as if to say, ‘Now go win this,’” he shared.
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