Ikigai Book Pages Novels & Stories

It was numbered in Roman numerals so he couldn’t tell how many pages but it was certain that it was over a thousand page. He had barely read a line from the first page when his phone beeped multiple times. Mr. Yugo had sent him the same text five times. He chuckled. When he starts reading, he barely blinks, he ignores his phone and everything around him. He only picked up his phone because, the first page was the acknowledgement page and he wasn’t glued to the book, yet. “Stay inside the library. The full moon has began to form. Be safe.”- Mr. Yugo.

For a while, he just stared at me but then shook his head anyway saka mas lalo pang nilakihan ang hakbang nito as he headed to the business section, causing me to half run and half walk just to keep up with him. Goddammit! "Ms. Javier?" "W-What?" I answered with heavy breaths dahil sa kahahabol rito. "Take this." Then he suddenly throw a book that weighs like a bag of rocks to me na taranta ko namang sinalo. "What's this?" Naguguluhang tanong ko rito when he suddenly gave me that gray book. 'Ways to kill competitors' Agad na umarko ang kilay ko when I read those words boldly printed on its cover.

Atomic Habits by James Clear. I finished the first chapter before my alarm finally rang. I turned it off, sat up, and wrote down the lessons I learnt from the chapter. It's just the first chapter and I've written half a page full of lessons. All I wanted to do was just lie in bed and read the book all day, but I have things to do. I reluctantly roll out of bed, brush my teeth, wash my face, do my skin care, and change into my yoga clothes, moving with practiced ease.

I muttered, opening the first page. I needed to start working on myself so that I could erase all thoughts of Xavier’s sister from his memory. On the first page of the book was a table of content, showing all that was to be found in the book. I scrolled down from the introduction and jumped to “Casting your first spell.” I traced my finger on the dotted lines and found the page number. I opened the book and when I got to this page, I stopped. The name of the contact was boldly written in capital letters and it took the whole page. Opening to the next page, I found it’s content.

The book was supposed to be a guide to finding the valley, but most of the pages were useless. Only the covers, the first and last pages, contained any real information. Ken felt a surge of anger. He had been played. He tried to calm himself down. Maybe there was still something useful in the book. He went back to the beginning and read through the first page. But still, there was nothing he could understand. He felt so stupid at himself. Why did he not pay close attention to it when he got it? And he had even paid his men. He threw the book away in anger.

I'm sure they're supposed to be words, but they're peculiarly stacked together in such a way that only the writer can decipher them. I flip the pages, which I'm surprised are empty at all, given how used the book feels and looks. Closing the book, I open it again to a random page. But there's nothing random about this page. It has been visited multiple times, even recently. I'm sure my sight serves me correctly. Angie's Must-Do List— Steps To Freedom. The title reads, and then there's a bunch of things. * Drink Alcohol * Try a cigarette * Have my first kiss

Even Brian didn’t stop nagging me until I told him I could no longer handle it. “You sound so bitter right now,” Judith said, typing in her passcode as we stopped at her door. We entered her room, and I headed straight for her bed. I expected her to protest that the bed would only make me want to sleep instead of read but she didn’t. “I’m not sounding bitter, I just don’t like the way everyone is trivializing my decision,” I said, picking the biggest book from the stack of books I left on the ground. I read from a self-help book I had once read, ‘Eat-That-Frog’, that eating your biggest frog first would make eating the smaller ones easier.

I press my hand to him, trying to get him to stay still. “I can help,” I murmur, fumbling with the heavy book in my lap. He pauses, eyes darting to the old book. His gaze hardens in suspicion but then softens. He recognizes what it is. I flip frantically through the brittle pages. 39… 91… 180… Focus. My fingers finally find the right page and relief washes over me when I spot the illustrations. I place the book next to me and take the bag, searching for the right leaves stuffy stuff. I do not know what. At least the book has pictures in color.

Sir Ben Chua explained. It was just a gray book, it was not thick but thin. He opened it and at the first page, I stood up out of curiosity. "The first page is about greetings. It says here, Good day to the three of you! I watch all of your steps, the days are coming and both of you will be with me. I am excited to see you. I don't want to scare you but it is happening. You will know and understand once I reveal it. Take care and remember that I am here and please, take control of your heart and do not cause any harm in the future. See you, both. From Unknown,”

’ ‘What’s important is to remain calm through the whole process and ensure that you remain a trusted bank employee,’ he continued. ‘But I’m still remaining with a few chapters to conclude my book,’ she said protesting. ‘I know how critical the book is, that’s the more reason you should memorize the middle two chapters by heart. Your life will depend on those. Remember, it's poetic, and people will just remain speculating on what the words were meant to be.’ ‘By now you should have related everything to the title of the book. It’s there where everything is hidden - it’s the alpha and the omega of this project.’