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Although on many
occasions, I would rather stay home and read my books as I love to read and cannot have enough
hours to do so, I regularly meet up with friends and family members and I participate in local events to interact with other people and spar thoughts and ideas. I do not like meeting
acquaintances as it can be quite tiresome to have to exchange pleasantries but
I enjoy meeting new people as I am curious about strangers as one may get some
surprises after going beyond the introductions.
If you ask me how I would
describe myself, this is how I
perceive myself. A bit of perfectionist, honest ( though not entirely true),
imaginative, trusting, adaptable , sensitive and empathetic. Affable though
some people may not agree. I can also be stubborn, overly sensitive and inconsistent in my behaviour. There
are times I am comfortable appearing in public while there are also times when
I feel like hibernating. I imagine it could be liberating to visit a foreign
place where you hardly know anyone but it definitely takes a lot of courage for
some people to leave behind their old life and start a life in a foreign country. I am not one who can lead a nomadic
kind of life so I stayput in one place for decades. Sometimes I wonder if I
could have ever done the kind of
travelling Elizabeth Gilbert
described in her memoir Eat Pray Love.
Untold Story by Monica Ali is a fiction premised on the
demise of a princess and about
Lydia, an English woman who had
wanted to escape her past and
reinvent a new life in
Kensington, Midwest America. The question was : Could Lydia ever run away from her home, her children, her family
and her heritage? Some part of the story was told by reading the journal kept
by her personal assistant, Lawrence who had been extremely supportive of Lydia
and a great admirer of her. Lawrence wrote about Lydia in his diary : “ Press exposure and public
scrutiny-I hardly know where to begin. She had lived with it for such a long
time, why not carry on indefinitely? Perhaps that question is built on the
premise that one eventually becomes immune to these things. I wonder if anyone
does. We rather assume it when we see the magazines and newspapers full of
personal comments on the starlets of the day. It’s the price of fame, we say to
ourselves, and loose change at that.” Lydia reminds
me of Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, a novel by Truman Capote although
the two characters are very different in that Lydia is a royal princess who wanted to live an ordinary
life while Holly Golightly escaped her homely life and ended up a socialite in
Manhattan. Even though both women are vulnerable and insecure, they are
determined to break free from the circumstances they were trapped in and take
steps to find their own place in the world.
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