Did someone say, familiarity breeds contempt ? When it's about books, especially good ones, this truism doesn't impress.
Like a homing pigeon, at times I re-read a good book. Foolish as it may sound ,for there is a whole expanse of literature that may take seven lives to read , one cannot dispute that the 'known' is innoculated against disappointment.
When the mood is less venturesome I pick up one such, much like one surfing the channels and finally settling to watch a movie classic once more in quietude, 'Chupke Chupke'.
Anne's Diary never disappoints. It adorns the private collection of all book lovers for it ranks among those that one must read before the Maker's Stop Watch trings, trings, 'Time Up'.
Tragically, Anne, the teenager, who felt "youth is lonelier than old age" didn't live to test it. Neither she lived her youth nor saw old age. In the two years she spent in hiding in occupied Amsterdam with her family and two other Jewish families before becoming Auswitch bound she encapsulated the wisdom of a life time in her narration of those two years in the diary.
That never fails to boggle my mind any time I read it. Such perspicacity in one less than fifteen years old ? Amazing !
I will end this walk-through of the diary with some quotes that bear eloquent testimony to her perceptive observations and intellectual and emotional precocity.
We all live but we dont know the why or the where for. We all live with the object of being happy. Our lives are all different yet all the same
Older people have formed their opinion about everything and dont waver before they act.
It is twice as hard for our young ones to hold our ground and maintain our opinions in a time when all ideals are being shattered and destroyed, when people are showing their worst side and do not know whether to believe in truth and right and God.
All children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on
right paths. But the final forming of a personal character lies in their own hands
How noble and good everyone could be if every evening before falling asleep they were to recall in their minds the events of the whole day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then without realizing it , you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day, of course , you achieve a lot in the course of time . Anyone can do this. It costs nothing and is certainly very helpful.
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