Tuesday, April 10, 2012

For You A Thousand Times Over...

I tried to cry quietly not to wake up others. As I held the book against my chest and I went back to the beginning of the story. Running it through my head like a movie frame by frame. Kept hearing..For You A Thousand Times Over...

The Kite Runner was published in 2003, the year that my life was filled with many trials and tribulations and really did not have much time to read! I finished the book tonight. A novel, a fiction, that is how they start describing the book. It might be a fictional story but those fictions are and have been others painful reality. The story of friendship, love, lust, betrayal, lies, evil, secrets, childhood sexual abuse, rape, revolution, occupation, immigration, and refugees intertwined with pain ,connected in deep rooted human desire for love, belonging, and acceptance.

Was my crying for the characters in the book or my own painful reality of once upon a time leaving my beloved country behind.....was it Baba's death in the book or losing my own father and not having been able to say goodbye to him for one last time...Zendagi migzara, Life Goes On... or was it when Sohrab said "I just want my old life back" ...the book might be a fiction but the stories in the book are my realities and many others around the world... 





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