For One More Day, By Mitch Albom: Page 1-198

I know this isn't the way you are supposed to do a blog, and I appologise. I picked up this book, and as soon as I picked it up, i literally WAS NOT able to put the book down. I spent 4 or 5 consecuative hours reading this book, which is very unusaul for me because I hate reading!
Maybe it's because I could relate so closely to what the main charecter in the story was experiancing, and how he felt. The whole book: a bad relationship with his mom, things turning from such a high point to a terribly low point, the hope of acceptance from others, the feeling that you have been put out of your family,.... and the wish that the relationship with your mother could be better.
"For One More Day" is about a guy who had to choose to be either a momma's boy or a daddy's boy, but not both. He chooses to be a daddy's boy, and after his parents split he shows no regard for his mother. His dad gets him to a high level in his life, and sets him up to be great, but then after that he takes off and never see's his son again. Chick feels like his is alone, and before he get the chance to run back to his mom, she dies of a massive stroke.
Chick also has problems with his own family, with his wife spliting with him, so he becomes a drunk. Embarrased of her father, Chick's only daughter doesn't invite her own dad to her wedding.
After experiancing this, he trys to take his own life, by drinking himself to death, getting in a terrible car accident, and jumping off of a water tower. He attempts all of these in all of the same night, and unsuccesful with each attempt. After he hits the ground after jumping off of the water tower, he looks up and sees his dead mother looking down at him.
He works up the strength to go to his old home and talks to his mother, trying to figure out how all of this is possible, considering that he burried his own mother. Later he realises that the reason he is able to see his mother again is because he is so close to death. So it's almost like he's in some sort of place between heaven and earth.
This section is probibly the sadest part in a book i've ever read. It really makes you believe in the eternal power of a mother's love, and that you can't take that love for granted.