A thousand splendid suns
"One could not count the moons that simmer on her roofs, or
the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls."
the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls."
I JUST FINISHED READING HOSSEINI'S SECOND WORK OF BEAUTY.
I bawled again like a lonely child. In the first few pages, i was very sentimental because traces of the kite runner would run through my head. Hassan running with his kite, the mountains and the sultan of kabul etc.. scenes that became a part of who i am today. So i was crying the whole time. The book was indeed written for the women of Afghanistan. Mariam is the Hassan in this book. Tariq and his story was lovely too but Mariam is the Hassan here. The one we all want to have in life. This part of the novel was the one that made me really think. That i dreamed of meeting and having a HASSAN in life and now A MARIAM, then i realized that the picture is not yet complete. Amir and Laila exists too. and then it hit me...
I bawled again like a lonely child. In the first few pages, i was very sentimental because traces of the kite runner would run through my head. Hassan running with his kite, the mountains and the sultan of kabul etc.. scenes that became a part of who i am today. So i was crying the whole time. The book was indeed written for the women of Afghanistan. Mariam is the Hassan in this book. Tariq and his story was lovely too but Mariam is the Hassan here. The one we all want to have in life. This part of the novel was the one that made me really think. That i dreamed of meeting and having a HASSAN in life and now A MARIAM, then i realized that the picture is not yet complete. Amir and Laila exists too. and then it hit me...
What if my whole life i was searching for a HASSAN and a MARIAM so that they would do to me what they've done and what they've been to AMIR AND LAILA when all along.. it's been destined and written that I WILL BE THE HASAAN AND MARIAM! yes my whole life i've been searching for the realness and beauty of Hassan and Mariam when I AM REALLY MEANT TO BE THEM IN THIS LIFE??
It is sad. Sad in the sense that it is possible. Because in life not everybody would get a hassan and mariam. Some would get them but others would have to BE THEM. and it made me sad thinking that if that's what's really my purpose in life and i've been hitting the wrong thing that's why up to now i still do not see a progress because all along i've been following and expecting the wrong path.
I AM NOT COMPLAINING. I just feel like i deserve to GET what i've been giving and expecting from others too. I do not support the idea that in this world you're either the hassan and mariam who will sacrifice and lose everything for others or be amir and laila who gets and benefits from all these sacrifices made my hassan and mariam. I want to be amir and laila. My whole life i've been searching for that certain thing. I am a simple person who longs for simple things. I just feel like i deserve to get it even just a glimpse of it.
Anyway, i am so thankful and happy that people like Khaled Hosseini exists. He is really giving his country, Afghanistan a big favor by writing all these beauties. Now i see Afghanistan very differently. Even the whole middle east. I swear i am going to tour that beautiful continent someday.
I think one of the biggest contributions Hosseini has done in his life is that everytime i look at Afghan or middle eastern people now, i see Hassan and Mariam..and so i smile.
It is sad. Sad in the sense that it is possible. Because in life not everybody would get a hassan and mariam. Some would get them but others would have to BE THEM. and it made me sad thinking that if that's what's really my purpose in life and i've been hitting the wrong thing that's why up to now i still do not see a progress because all along i've been following and expecting the wrong path.
I AM NOT COMPLAINING. I just feel like i deserve to GET what i've been giving and expecting from others too. I do not support the idea that in this world you're either the hassan and mariam who will sacrifice and lose everything for others or be amir and laila who gets and benefits from all these sacrifices made my hassan and mariam. I want to be amir and laila. My whole life i've been searching for that certain thing. I am a simple person who longs for simple things. I just feel like i deserve to get it even just a glimpse of it.
Anyway, i am so thankful and happy that people like Khaled Hosseini exists. He is really giving his country, Afghanistan a big favor by writing all these beauties. Now i see Afghanistan very differently. Even the whole middle east. I swear i am going to tour that beautiful continent someday.
I think one of the biggest contributions Hosseini has done in his life is that everytime i look at Afghan or middle eastern people now, i see Hassan and Mariam..and so i smile.
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