I recently read the book 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' by Khaled Hosseini, also the author of 'The Kite Runner'. It's a good book, but somehow I didn't enjoy it as much as I had enjoyed The Kite Runner. The author has written the book on somewhat similar lines, and if one has read The Kite Runner, I wouldn't recommend it to him. For me, it was a let down. However, I did enjoy it in bits and pieces, especially a quote on friendship, something I have felt over the years and very aptly put by the author.
"How many times had she, Hasina and Giti had said the same three words to each other, Laila wondered, said it without hesitation, after only two or three days of not seeing each other? I missed you, Hasina, Oh, I missed you too. In Tariq's grimace, Laila learned that boys differed from girls in this regard. They didn't make a show of their friendship. They felt no urge, no need for this kind of talk. Laila imagined it had been this way for her brothers too. Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun; its existence undisputed, its radiance enjoyed, not beheld directly. "
A girl (as it goes for a majority of them)doesnt like to be taken for granted by anyone..
ReplyDeleteshe needs to be told explicitly sometimes that she is cared for....
when it comes to friendship ..i dont think a boy can match her level of dedication, she's one up there....
@Monideepa: Your first comment might be true. I can't say much about that...but as far as your second opinion goes, i don't think that the "level of dedication" is gender specific. That depends from person to person.
ReplyDeleteOn a slightly different note, boys don't show off their friendship, neither are they fake. As in , if they are not friends with anybody they don't pretend to be..this is not the case with girls. Even if they are worst of the enemies, they would hug each other in public and bitch afterwards at their backs.