the lessons.

I just read this book ‘the lessons’ by naomi alderman and it really set me thinking. As we grow up, we realise that everything about life is arbitrary. I think that was what the book was trying to put across and it is through these arbitrary incidents and coincidences, we learn lessons and find meaning to it.

Just to share, there was this rather long phrase in the book which I found rather striking: There is a kind of love which is selfless. It is a love which waits through all things, which is patient and hopeful, which does not need to be returned. It is a love which is confident in itself and burns on and on though no fuel is added to the fire. It is a perfect love; more perfect than the love between equals. I do not know if it is a love towards which it is proper for human beings to aspire.

How great if we could all possess or experience this kind of love for someone we know. But we know we are unable, because we are human beings and human beings tend to be selfish and self-motivated so much so that society has no place for pure generosity and compassion that requires no incentive.

We can point out all the wrongs but talk is cheap. Actions are inert.

Some for food for thought, its quite messy though.

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