Kite Runner...What an amazing book!!!

Today morning, i finished reading this book and I must tell I have been very lucky to have laid my hands upon two damn sexy books in succession, the first being Many lives, Many masters... Kite Runner...doesnt have some out of the world amazing story nor does it state something as intriguing as past life as was the case in the other book but the sheer narrative of the story leaves you spell-bound plus its depiction of self-guilt, insecurity and above all the way life comes a full circle is truly amazing...I got so lost in the book that i neither brushed my teeth nor had my breakfast till afternoon...:) When I was reading through the book, I couldnt help but think of the wreck that is caused by ghosts inside us, either on account of grave secrets we have, our past lives or anything but these are stuff that leave us drenched and affect us in more than one ways..We pretend normalcy, we pretend happiness but thats not the case, deep inside there are these lingering feelings that just dont go away and haunt us wherever we go, whatever we do...the past actually never dies..we might run away from it, hide it but then it does haunt us..and not everyone has the guts nor are situations always that conducive for us to become a la the wife of the protagonist who could reveal all her past demons and shed the albatross...more often than not we are like her husband...just reeling under it, suffering and unable to do a shit about it...

Another thing that got me really thinking is about the vagaries of life..think about it...how suddenly his best friend got molested...how suddenly he realized that his servant was actually his half brother...two of the most defining moments of his life..moments that changed the course of his life and he couldnt do a shit about them...he couldnt plan for them...he couldnt have expected them even in his wildest imagination and worst still...whats his fault that life did this to him...what was his damn fault...in the first case, he was just a enthusiastic kid participating in a tournament..and in the second he was only a caring person visiting a person he loved so much...why did life have to bring so much chaos and catch him so unawares like this..??

Neverthelss...no point getting into these aspects....what u wish and what u can do are always two different things...