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    If You Read This, Everything Is Fine
    If You Read This, Everything Is Fine
    If You Read This, Everything Is Fine
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    If You Read This, Everything Is Fine

    By David Mattay

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    Be incredible

    This is a little book that could. But it is not actually for you. It is a book for someone who struggles. For someone who is in pain. For someone unhappy. Lost. Bleak. Hopeless.

    Someone you know. Someone from the extended circle of people in your life. Or someone in your family, maybe. Someone you care deeply about, even if you haven't said it out loud just yet.

    Smile and be pleased: this is a very lucky day for that someone. Because it has an amazing friend: You.
    Come on and read this ebook - it's short and sweet. Inside, you'll find a link to the printed version you can order from a major store.
    Buy that special someone of yours a copy, but mail it to yourself. Once you got their book, take a red marker and write their name on the cover. (There's some white space on it exactly for this purpose.) So that the cover can read something like "John, IF you read this, everything is fine". Or "Emma, IF you read this, everything is fine". Or James. Or Jennifer. Ryan. Emily. Matthew. Lauren. Daniel. Olivia.
    Yes, even your very own name, if you know deep down you might be that someone as well.

    Offer them the book, with their name written on the cover. Let this little book do its magic. Witness the good You did for them.

    IF you read this, everything is fine is a book written out of the thickest despair. By someone on the verge of ending everything. Someone who was saved by this big, beautiful, and weird IF. Someone who lived to tell this simply yet fiddly truth: everything is fine IF you read this.

    Do a great deed.
    Gift this little book to someone in need.
    Be an awesome You.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEditura Metro
    Release dateJul 11, 2021
    ISBN9786069312858
    If You Read This, Everything Is Fine
    Author

    David Mattay

    David Mattay is a trained lawyer who became a composer, following his life-long passion for music and string instruments. When he’s not writing music, David tends his garden while trying to learn all the bird calls and songs he can hear. David lives in Europe with his wife, three kids, five dogs, and two cats. Of all the souls living under the same roof, he’s the only one who doesn’t like fish.

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      If You Read This, Everything Is Fine - David Mattay

      IF you read this, everything is fine

      IF you read this, everything is fine

      David Mattay

      Matte & Gloss BooksImprint logo

      editura metro

      Published by Matte & Gloss Books, a non-fiction division of Editura Metro.

      First edition: 2021

      IF you read this, everything is fine

      Copyright © 2015 by David Mattay. All rights reserved.

      No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of the publisher.

      Cover design: Benjamin Josif

      Print ISBN: 978-606-93128-4-1

      Ebook ISBN: 978-606-93128-5-8

      editura metro is an imprint of Metro Publishing Group.

      For Ella.

      Without you, this wouldn’t exist.

      This, and everything else in between.

      Contents

      Introduction

      IF you hate yourself, everybody else will, eventually

      IF you feel misunderstood, you need an interpreter

      IF you think there's no way out, you need a new pair of glasses

      IF it's there, you'll get it

      IF it's not there, you either make it yourself or wait for someone else to make it

      IF you don't get it, it's because there's something even better out there

      IF it's all dark, you'll have to wait for the light

      IF it's smaller, it will grow

      IF you don't find a reason, you're looking in the wrong place

      IF the glass is half empty, it is because you didn't finish to pour

      IF easy will come, easy will go

      IF you need hope, you'll make it

      IF you can make one person happy, anything else in life is a bonus

      IF you believe, there you have it

      IF everything is an illusion, you can be the greatest illusionist ever

      IF you start with the end in mind, beginnings will be a breeze

      IF life is all that you got, you got everything

      IF in doubt, chose love

      About the Author

      Print edition

      Disclaimers

      Introduction

      I should have

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