You know you are submerged in a good book when you stop
everything you have been doing for many weeks; all of a sudden. What it is
doing to your mind and heart is more complex to understand then the book
itself.
What I have been reading since past 3 days have left me
wondering what your mind can do to you when you are involved in a fictional
tale which you can relate to your own life.
How can it make you feel connected to different people in
your life?
When the story is divided in phases and when
people come and go according to their roles you understand how important that
is. How the same thing has been following you around day in and out. But now as
you know the ending of the book you understand how things mattered in the very
start which led us to this outcome. You suddenly start worrying less. Its
such a sudden thing that even you can’t believe it for some time.
People come and go but they leave their
imprint and that will shape up what you desire wholeheartedly.
How you start loving and hating the same person in and out
of the book?
Its strange how a writer can play with your mind
and make you believe that you have been trusting the wrong person all along. You
stop, close the book, wait a minute or two, read the passage again and connect
the dots. Its hard to manage the bile rising in your throat but not everything
runs according to your fancy. Loving and hating are strong words and run hand
in hand. On one page you are loving them and on the last sentence you are heart
broken. Sounds relatable?
How big revelations are not embellished, and pain is not
told but allowed to be felt?
When I was reading this book, death was told in
between all the commotion that was going on; it wasn't mentioned once in full
royalty. It can be the last sentence and that tells you the chapter is over, move on. That
hits hard. Analyze it for yourself, feel the pain hidden somewhere in between the last and the
current page you are on and inhale the emptiness; as you are not going to meet
the same character again in your life, but the book wouldn’t have been
completed without them. That was something to learn for a lifetime.
How people turn their biggest defeats around?
I love books which don’t have an over-powered
protagonist. The weight is too heavy for two shoulders. It needs to be passed
on over and over and over till the distribution sounds sane, the problems sound
genuine and the rewards are hard earned. Who needs a hero when you can have
multiple normal people? Similarly, who needs one soul when you can have many
who shapes you through and through until you sail with them, knowingly or
unknowingly. You fail but who said it was an easy road. Be anxious, be stupid,
make mistakes but DO something if you are not content.
How love can teach you what it takes to be there?
Fiction can have unrealistic love couples. But I
see two normal people who fell in love because of no reason. Simply fell in
love and never fell out of it. The stolen glances are much more functionary then
the endless and tiresome love making. Something that lasts longer and leaves a
beautiful imprint in the heart of someone who is reading such a simple and
ordinary love tale that ends in not more then a few chapters or few pages, or
maybe a paragraph.
How social reasons cannot affect a fictional tale?
I skip all the unnecessary information the
writer tries to give me when I am enjoying just a story. But you need to know
who supports who just to see how they will react further. It’s an enjoyable
process, though people are dying, murderers are not convicted but do you care
when you know it’s a reality hidden behind a story which never happened. It’s a
maze of creative space and real world which you never want to exit.
How big revelations can make you wonder your intelligence?
You feel you know it all, a few more chapters
and its done. You will be crying your heart out in a few seconds without any
explanation even if you are sitting in a room full of people. You breathe slowly,
keep the book as far as possible to never return to it. But that is a pretense.
You return to it after few hours, you are ready now. It will be over in a few
chapters and maybe you have been too negative, and the writer wasn’t in the bad
mood while writing the story. Maybe love stays when you think everything has gone
astray. The hope rises and its not in your power to relate it to yourself.
How the pressure of finishing it and not letting them go is
balanced?
Just 40 more pages; and it has been hard on you. People
are dead, love has bloomed, hardened, lied to and what not. Nightmares will
haunt you too because you are part of it now, believe it or not, it is not
going to leave you alone tonight. You can’t escape it. You skip paragraphs
because you need to end it before going to bed, but you know you are letting go
of your breath with that, you revisit and find your favorite quote. Just like
how you miss on important things not knowing they were important in the first
place. But you go back and that is what really matters.
It was hard but it was hard in a subtle way 😊
