Healthy Living: The Kite Runner

I finished "The Kite Runner" today. It was an amazing book. After I finished the book, I stared at this thick booklet with it's brown pages. I cannot believed all the things that has happened inside it.

There are a lot of things the book surprised me and there are a lot of things the book did not. I think for one thing, I am immigrant myself, so I knew. I knew for one thing how hard life could be, but the pain that the character went through in this book is entirely on a different level. It is those kinds of stories that I would often hear from my parent's lifetime. But then again, nothing as severe and crazy as this is. I want to point out some thing I do loved about this book.

What the Kite Runner taught me was that, life is not always that black and white. Its funny how Baba, the protagonist father, who saw life in black and white is so gray. I mean, people sin. People do things and hurt others. I don't think there are many people in this world who have not hurt others in some kind of ways. The severity of it varies in people and their ways. But I want to focus a bit on Baba. He is revered in the book. Someone who you looked up to, someone who the whole community bolstered for. He is the man of the community, the man. He is someone worth of love and respect. But who knew, he also craved into temptation. His hands is not without blood stain. Because of his actions and his lies, he has denied is son a right to a brother, his servant a right to a wife, a women a right to her life, and he doesn't even have the decency to confessed his sin to his own son to keep face with the world.

What is it this stupid reputation and front that people choose to give off to the world when their own hands stink with their own filth.

This book is real. Its raw. It captures the hardship of life, the injustice, the victims, and crimes. All of this is later covered by secrets and lies. And soon, the sins that we commit becomes tangled in life's complication.

So, I ask you. My readers, to do the right thing. I ask my readers to take responsibility for your action. Live up to your sin and find redemption. Stay away from bad people who will pull you into these situation.

 Because, there is a way to be good again.