For you,a thousand times over

I turned page 324 and I sat there still,unable to move for sometime,then all of a sudden I shook my head in disbelief.

I just finished reading the Kite Runner.

There are very few things that I have encountered that have shook me to my foundation. The Kite Runner didn't do that. It did something more,it ripped my heart open,not forcefully but delicately like a surgeon operating on a patient.The only difference is by the end of it a surgeon sews you back up but the Kite Runner leaves your heart open. And what's more by the end of it....you don't care to close your fresh wound,you want to leave it open to hope to feel even a cent of what the author has felt through his life.

As I read the Kite Runner, I thought of all those times I had wronged people, all those times I left people and all those times people left me.As I finished the Kite Runner I faced all those moments with my head down,and my heart acting as a mirror showing the person to be blamed for all those times. Needless to say the mirror had me looking in it.

I have run away from so many of those moments right throughout my life, just like the author. But in the end you have to face those moments sometime or the other. The Kite Runner gave me the strength to do just that.

The characters in this book are so pure yet complicated.Hassan the author's loyal friend,I wonder if people like him still exist in the world.People who would take blows for you,would stand up for you and most of all Forgive You without even a semblance of an explanation.

Hassan's soul shone right throughout the book.It wasn't gold,it wasn't silver,it was just pure white.Hassan's blinding faith is a ray of light,one that stays with you throughout the book,reminding you of the greatness of it's master,it's creator.

Maybe I will fly a kite one of these days and hope like that kite submits itself to my hands ,my touch,my caress, follows me without question...I too can find the same courage to submit my heart to unblinding faith and submerged within that ocean of faith I can whisper in a person's ear "For you,a thousand times over".