Discovered the best friend in the shelf...virtual reality??

Books are the best friends. So by that measure , I have a lot of good friends and I keep looking for more to come and be a part of my ever growing treasure. Some times it so happens that I buy books and then just put them in my Almirah so that I can read later as and when I am free. Last week as I was searching through my huge pile, I came across this book called 'the last lecture'. I don't even remember when and where did I buy this piece. As I descended in my bed and tried finishing a few pages on the last Monday night, I just could not believe that the author actually wrote this book while he had lost all hopes while fighting a terminal illness but still managed to leave his legacy for his toddlers through a book and a video recording based on his last lecture. A teacher, scientist and imagineer as he calls himself in the book has done complete justice to the readers as well. I feel lucky to have this book with me and would like to reread many times. What fascinated me the most was his will power and his zeal to share his experiences and child hood dreams with all and sundry by way of pictures which he had collected over the years. Instead of indulging in self pity and portraying himself as a symbol of some one who is left dying by a quirk of fate at such a young age, he chose not to give up, made a judicious use of the little time he was left with, strove to be a fighter and won the hearts though succumbed .... a few months after this last lecture.

A worth reading, well written, well organised book that covers all aspects of an ideal life that is full of compassion and so enriching as it was which one comes to know as you flip the pages. The wall of bricks he talks about so often in his book is an eternal truth which every one faces. Some fail to deliver considering it as a big hinderance, others choose to consider as a challenge and work harder to get over it instead of just complaining and bickering about. The content is so much of a revelation to me, the issues he has taken up are the ones which I could not even imagine or fathom a few days back. Being entangled in my own webs of pity problems, I have had never bothered to look on this aspect of my life, my own dreams and imageries...

Instead of being myself, I tried being every thing to some one else and actually killed my self. This book comes at the most right time. I thank profusely as a reader, as a part of the huge legacy the author has left. It would help me grow as a teacher as well. The call of teaching is now growing so strong inside me...

From being a top dog in my career to an odd duck in a rough and tumble pond... Sounds hilarious but is the most befitting comment on my present situation. I can relate myself to many of the situations in which already he had been, would have loved meeting him once, had he been alive.

"It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit... And keep moving forward"...great quote, would stick on the wall in the front of my bed.

" just ignore everything what they say and only pay attention to what they do" is enough to understand what underpins the statement. Would recommend to every young bird who's in her teens and growing up with a wish to find a perfect life partner.

The head fake .... Concept is just awesome. Estoy Sin palabras. Have already starting applying to my two birdies who come home twice for cleaning and mopping. 

The whole experience is surreal for me. I can spend the entire coming week writing about the chapters and topics he has covered. 

The brick walls are for a reason...

Mine too will also be crossed.

With this hope, I rest...