{"id":2748,"date":"2020-05-18T18:12:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T12:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.105.37.82\/?p=2748"},"modified":"2020-05-18T18:13:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T12:43:01","slug":"life-lessons-i-learnt-from-the-kite-runner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiacityblog.com\/read\/life-lessons-i-learnt-from-the-kite-runner-2748\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Lessons I Learnt from ‘The Kite Runner’ by Khaled Hosseini"},"content":{"rendered":"
Have you ever felt a deep connection with a book? The kind of connection where you are vulnerable yet strong. Have you ever stayed up all night reading a book, even when your eyes were screaming for sleep? Did it ever happen that you took some time to come out of the fictional world created by the writer? Didn\u2019t the reel world feel more real? \u00a0Last summer, I came across such a book- \u2018The Kite Runner\u2019. I vividly remember wiping the slow stream of tears flowing from my eyes throughout the book. I felt a deep void in my heart as I read the climax and pure ecstasy in the end. While reading the last sentence of the last page, I knew something inside me had changed. I felt that I knew the people, culture, and the city I had never visited. Books do this to people. Right? A well- written book makes the reader fall in love with it. These books are about ordinary people and their stories which are somewhere lost in this ever-changing world. It\u2019s about you and me.\u00a0 Apart from all this, a good book teaches you great lessons. So here are a few life lessons that I have learned from \u2018The Kite Runner\u2019 –<\/em><\/p>\n 1. Children<\/strong> aren\u2019t coloring books. You don\u2019t get to fill them with your favorite colors.<\/b><\/p>\n If life were the sky and you were a bird then childhood would be your wings. Humans have a lot of expectations from themselves as well as from others. They tend to project their expectations even on an unborn child. Society and parents\u2019 expectations begin to build up as an infant grows into a kid. The original dreams of the children are dissolved in fulfilling these envisioned dreams. The child is not their parent. It\u2019s completely okay if children don\u2019t fit in the large shoes of their parents. Perhaps, they were meant for another pair! If every child got the freedom to do what (s)he wants to do, the world would have been a different place. In the early and innocent days of life, it\u2019s important that the children get to fill their choice of colors. We need to learn to accept people as they are.<\/p>\n