Nope. i’m not going to spoil the fun of reading the book by giving you a synopsis. hmmm... in fact, i’m not going to give even the slightest hint as to what the story is about!
i know. before you ask ’then what on earth are you doing out here?’, lemme ask YOU a question:
have you ever, like right in the middle of something, let’s say cleaning the fridge (yeah, right!), suddenly been struck numb by questions like ’WHAT AM I DOING HERE? IS THIS WHAT I REALLY WANT? IS THIS AS GOOD AS IT GETS?’ or maybe ’WHY AM I HERE? COULDN’T I BE SOMEWHERE ELSE AND DOING SOMETHING ELSE?’or something like on these lines?
if your answer is no, then you don’t stand to gain much from reading this book. seriously. you probably are so tuned into yourself and your surroundings that boy, you are in perfect control of your life!
for the rest of us unfortunate ones, we need those li’l cattleprods (ok not cattleprods, maybe ummm a stick?) to nudge us along on this long road we call life. juggling our li’l split personalities: one at home, one with friends, one among strangers, another with your bosses, a fifth one with your lover... well that’s we call life, isn’t it? and facing questions of complacency, despondency, obsolescence and what not - constantly - in our daily life, at home at work...
... sometimes we just lose perspective. the larger picture. why, sometimes we are so tuned out that we miss all the interesting bits lying right in front of us.
was that too heavy?
ok, I better tell you, the book is hardly as heavy! :-) it is a simple story (na na, no synopsis!) that will prompt you to put things in PERSPECTIVE. and no, this is not a self-help set-of-instructions book either. it is a quaint but very meaningful set-of-thoughts that can help us see things in a different light. of course, only if we wanted to! every person I know who has read this book has derived his/her own personal ’meaning’ of the story.
try it. and if you don’t like it, gift it someone. you just might make that person’s day!
:-)
happy reading!