Eat Pray Love : When Ruin is Not a Gift

I doubt that President Obama will adopt the line “Ruin is a gift. Ruin
is the road to transformation” as he and his party head toward the
November Congressional elections. But Julia Roberts’s character, Liz, in
the film Eat Pray Love is speaking of a personal transformation and not
an economic transformation of the U.S. after the 2008 Great Recession.
Getting attached to that—the U.S.’s economic collapse —is, in terms of a
personal transformation—a “real trap.”