Bookworm is back!

Hey guys, hope that you are doing fine and that, this time, blogspot will understand I want SMALL-sized Trebuchet and not X-SMALL sized fonts.
Post-edit: no, appearently blogspot still likes changing my 'small' to 'x-small'. Sorry guys, I won't change it. I have to change the html line by line to make it work and I just don't feel like it.


Just going through the neighbourhood because as Nurani said we need to prevent this blog from entering blogspot's spam list again. And because I was reading Haruki Murakami's "Norwegian Wood" and found something amazing. I think we all fit in that segment in one way or other so I hope you don't mind I share this!


"I said this one day to the doctor in charge of my case, and he told me that, in a sense, what I was feeling was right, that we are in here not to correct the deformation but to accustom ourselves to it: that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities. Just as each person has certain idiosyncrasies in the way he or she walks, people have idiosyncrasies in the way they think and feel and see things, and though you might want to correct them, it doesn't happen overnight, and if you try and force the issue in one case, something else might go funny. He gave me a very simplified explanation, of course, ant it's just one small part of the problems we have, but I think I understand what he was trying to say. It may well be that we can never fully adapt to our own deformities. Unable to find a place inside ourselves for the very real pain and suffering that these deformities cause, we come here to get away from such things. As long as we are here, we can get by without hurting others or being hurt by them because we know that we are "deformed". That's what distinguishes us from the outside world: most people go about their lives unconscious of their deformities, while in this little world of ours the deformities themselves are a precondition. Just as Indians wear feathers on their heads to show what tribe they belong to, we wear our deformities in the open. And we live quietly not to hurt one another".


Now, I bet at this point of the post each one of us have different ways of reacting to the words, but let me break it down. I just find it interesting how Murakami plays with the human mind, because he uses a strong word (deformity), then shows that it's not such a bad thing when he talks about 'getting used to it', but soon after that he brings up that the character will never be able to do that because she thinks her deformity 'hurts' people.
Then again, I believe that we fit in one way or the other (not only because we are foreigners), because as far as I know you guys (and myself), I think there are some walls and obstacles we haven't come over yet because we still fear our own capabilities. Or should I say deformities? It depends on which word you use for it, and whether you think that word is 'good' or 'bad'. I don't know, it was just hauntingly interesting.