“I’m lost in a snowstorm. The wind shrieks, blows
stinging sheets of snow into my eyes. I stagger through layers of shifting
white. I call for help but the wind drowns my cries. I fall and lie panting on
the snow, lost in the white, the wind wailing in my ears. I watch the snow
erase my fresh footprints. ‘I’m a ghost now’, I think, ‘a ghost with no
footprints’.” Extract from ‘The Kite Runner,’ a novel by Khaled Hosseini.
I’m reading this book now, and there’s one vital
lesson I just learnt; ‘Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a
lie.’ It amazes me how Khaled’s very first novel could be so powerful. Truth indeed, can hurt. But the pain wears off
with time. A lie, no matter how comfortable it is, will shatter you big time
the moment it's revealed. Big up to Khaled for such a gripping and inspiring tale.
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