This is not a book review or a movie review or a journal. It
is just what I wanted to be poured out of me.
I called in sick at work yesterday Today, it was the weekend.
I read a lot these past two days and I watched a lot of movies. I have always felt
so revived after taking such a break. I love them, both, reading and watching a movie.
I am always awed by the way a writer creates a character: A character
that has a face, a body and a life. How can you so vividly create
something that you have never seen or heard of?! How can you go out there and
make a person? How do you get to know all the details of these people, their thoughts their
lifestyles, the way they think, the way they dress, their likes and their dislikes?
Same with a movie, I am awed with how much an actor can feel
the character, the urgency , the care , the warmth and bring it out on screen, every detail and make us
believe in the make-believe.
I was reading 1Q84. I watched ‘50 shades of grey’ and I watched
’Philadelphia’ last night and then ‘Her’ today. I read and I watched and I read
and I watched and I am so lost right now. Lost in existence between all the
worlds I have seen. Moved; Stuck. I am happy for so much art in the worlds. It
fills me! It makes me alive with so much energy that I can’t describe it.
When I love a book so much, I read a book slower, word for
word, when it gets towards the end. I like to save it for longer, to savor it, To
taste the word in my mind. I have cried when I have read a book that I was
about to finish! I was scared I wouldn’t be reading it anymore. It’s like
losing a person you have come to like so much. May be I sound so crazy, but I
am not! May be I am! I feel so much better.
