The Book Thief

I was taking the train to Ipoh and decided to get a book to read through the journey. Since a friend suggested The Book Thief and also because i had not watched the movie, i decided to get it! Didn't know much about the story except that it was set during Nazi Germany and this little girl goes on stealing books. 

As i was all set for the journey, and as soon as i was seated, i started reading the very first chapter....and it was a little weird when i realised that the story begins in a train journey too! Even more interesting was that the story was narrated by Death!! It begins with Death taking a little boy who was travelling in that train. Then it got so interesting that the next thing i knew was i was nearing my destination station...and so much had happened in that two hours. Wars...death...books burned...death....books stolen...death....concentration camps...while death sharing its point of view whenever it decides to take peoples lives...hmmm pretty interesting and yet...a little scary! 

It made me realise how something we don't have or not allowed to have becomes an obsession. We want it even more when we know we can't have it. As in this story books were being burned in piles by the Nazis. Books were precious to those who loved them. When reading is regarded as crime...all the more you WANT to read. Even if it means you must steal! Because it gets that tempting.

Just like that...we all tend to go after everything that we are denied rather then working from things that has been allowed...We keep chasing our tails knowing we will never catch it! But eventually there comes a beautiful point when we stop chasing and settle down. That's when we begin to see everything else that has been following us trying to get our attention so desperately. And then we go....ooh dear...! have we been chasing after things that we want or have we really been running away from the things that want us badly! 

Hahhaa...i find life SIMPLY interesting...it has such an intricate plan that you just cant go out of its lines...no matter how much you run...you end up at a point where Life decides you to be! You sometimes end up staring blankly at walls wondering what happened to all that running you did...?? That's when you stop running and turn around to see all those goodness that has been chasing after you from ALL angles!! Then suddenly you have SO many options to choose from....everything beautiful...too much even to handle! Then the running stops....and living begins...you see it all...you see it at plain sight! really!! 

If you are not convinced....just stop running for a moment and look! i mean really LOOK! :)