How Starbucks Saved My Life

Comparing my own life to Michael in the book How Starbucks Saved My Life has some direct comparisons to what I read. A brief summary of Michaels life: Michael Gates Gill, in his fifties that had it all. Loving family, outstanding job with a six-figure salary, and a nice house in the suburbs. What more can you ask for? Well starting out the book it talks about his wonderful life but then getting around his sixties, he lost everything he had other then his Ivy League education and the though of his entitlement. Michael then looses his top notch job, has an affair and ends his marriage with his wife of marriage of twenty- year marriage, and to top it off he then gets diagnoses with a slow growing brain tumor. Living on his own he then gets

Through out the book Michael learns about both regret and rebirth. Never wanting to put this book down I actually learned a lot of things from the reading, It was definitely an inspiring one. I didn’t think opening up this book I was going to be able to relate my life to it but, I thought wrong. Staring the beginning of the book I felt so bad for Michael because I know what it feels like to be let go from a great paying job. I worked at a great job for four years getting a nice paycheck every week. I never would have thought anything was going to get in the way of it. Well, start the summer before my first year of college I was no longer working there. With college dues and buying books heading my way I felt so hopeless. Of course things weren’t as bad for me as it was for Michael because I wasn’t having marriage problems or health issues. But I understand what it is like to be left with nothing when you had it all. Simply just going on my own with no job I then started to focus on my school and I got a phone call from a women ( who has gotten my contact form someone I know) asking if I was interested in a