<BI>If you love someone set it free ,
If it comes back it’s your
If it doesn’t it never was...</BI>
I was reminded of these lines as I read the back cover of
the book which said ’’it takes courage to let someone you
love fly free’’.
I am sure all of us would agree with it. But let how many
of us do follow it. I don’t I sheepishly admit, and that’s
why I picked up the book.
It is a story of a girl Kate, meeting a boy Joe, and they falling
in love at first sight. But wait, it goes much beyond
that it is about your wants , your needs and how much
are you ready to give for what you want. And then when
you get what you want then you almost loose it. You
may not be wanting to do so but somewhere you past
comes, somewhere you present and that affects your
future.
This book is about expectations of marriage. When
a person marries should (s)he expect spouse to
fulfill one’s loneliness, to entertain. Does
marriage means chaining the other person, maneuvering
the other person to your dreams? Making your spouse
feel guilty for what you went through in past or
present?
Quoting ’’He was driven by his passion for planes
and obsessed by his work...He couldn’t slice off
more pieces of himself than he already had, and he
expected her to understand. And most of the time she did.
She loved him, and admired for his success. She was very
happy for him. It was exciting, and he was amazing. But
sometimes it hurt anyway. She was lonelier. And although
she tried to reason with herself, at times she felt
abandoned when he was gone’’ This was Kate’s story,
I am sure you feel she is justified but let us see the
other side too.Quoting ’’He wanted more in his life
than he was willing to share with her. He had nothing
left yo give. In sixteen years of loving her, he had given her what
he had, or he could. The rest he wanted for himself.
And he no longer wanted to apologize or explain or
have to comfort her. He knew how abandoned she felt
when he was gone, but he no longer cared. meeting
her needs and his own was just too much work for
him’’. Don’t we feel that he is justified too.
As usual there is no black/white in life. Life
has shades of gray.
The story is about spirit -of loving and living,
of facing your worst fears and conquering them.
I know it is easier said than done but it can be
done. Quoting again ’’It would have been hard to say
when the change happened in her. It didn’t come
suddenly. It wasn’t a sudden awakening. It was a
slow, arduous winding path up a mountainside towards
maturity and growth. And as she climbed day by day, she
grew strong. The things that had once so desperately
frightened her seemed less ominous. She had lost so
much of what mattered most to her, that abandonment
was finally a monster she had faced and conquered
on her own. Of all the things that terrified her, losing
him had been her worst fear. But she had, and lived’’
The book is about courage. Courage to live and let live.
Courage to fall in love and then rise too. (I have
often wondered why people only fall in love not rise)
When I was halfway I felt a little bored but I couldn’t
put the book down. Guess that’s why Danielle Steel is
a master storyteller. She somehow manages to touch
some corner of your heart with her characters. That’s
why I guess I’ll get her latest book ’’Dating game’’ and
maybe write a review on it.