Be Faithful
It takes some time to get to know each other, flipping first few pages, touching the cover and following with your fingertips the name, going through the acknowledgements and critics reviews, reading the introduction and first few chapters till you hook up and you cannot get enough. You know you cannot get enough of it when few pages before you fall asleep is not enough, just as a kiss for goodbye at your doorstep. You spend your evening in bed with Book, you spend your Sunday afternoon in the balcony with cup of coffee and the Book. You get so much involved, it makes you laugh and makes you cry. At the End you close the last page and either you share a tear over a story or you close the last page with a smile on your face remembering all the good moments and admiring how amazing it was.
Books are like a relationship, you need some time to get over with it till you roll in another one. Be faithful to your book. If it was a really good book it deserves some time to get over.
I made a mistake.
I had a relationship for over 3 months with my book. It was a very slow going at the beginning because I would not invest enough of time, there was lack of interest from both sides, but one day it happened, it just happened, the sparkles appeared and there I was spending every free moment with my book, carrying it with me whenever I would go, I would have long evenings at my balcony with the fresh breeze, and lazy weekend afternoon in a cafe. We had a really good time, there were few moments when tears were in my eyes, but we split as two responsible reasonable people would do, flipping the last page, and hazing at each other with the admiration for a while, thanking for a good time we spent together and then finally saying goodbye. My relationship with 'The Kite Runner' was over.
However, I make a mistake. The very same day I accidentally found myself in the book shop going through the shelves and trying to find something that would be my type. It took me some time, because I feel that I am over with P.Coelho, J.Brown and H.Murakami... So I need something new, something that I never experienced before. Here it was, a selection of Malaysian short stories. I thought for myself that this is a good time to have a taste of local literature. There I was happily sitting on my couch, getting in a very new and fresh relationship with another Book, but then I realised, I cannot read it now, because I still think of my ex-Book, of all the things that happened then and there, but not here and now. I managed to go though the first story [yes, that's the word, go through, but not read] but that was it for that day.
Few days passed and new book is in my hands again, I feel ready for a new relationship.
*always faithful, even to the books
posted by Audra @ 3:45 PM
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