Yeah this is boring but oh well... its the best i can come up with

This is from "The Zahir" -- a book about this everyday thing (not living yet not dead this thing is) that is always haunting us... telling us about our regrets in not living our wildest dreams -- and one part of the book wrote about a very successful woman who had everything she ever wanted in her life.

She had a husband that she loves and who loves her back in return, but then felt that the 2 of them had lost something very important as time passed by; so she decides to go far away than to be slowly watch the marriage disintegrate.

She had everything in life and yet she was unhappy, although she could pretend that she was going through life pretending that this unhappiness didn't exist, she was afraid of falling into a depression whereby she would never emerge.


And yeah I do suppose that you guys might be asking what the hell is this story talking about… all the stuff so chim and so obscure… such a thing can happen in real life meh?

Haha much as I would to say, the story could have been fake. But it could also be real. And more importantly, I think what it has to teach us is a lot more real than many other things that we face in life.

I guess the main gist that Coelho (the author) was trying to tell us was that, how come someone who loves you so much can just leave you so suddenly? Is it that she dun love you? Is it due to other reasons that we could have never thought about? Are we too narrow-minded to accept what has unjustly happened on ourselves?

In this story, the author was very sure that his wife loves him and that he loves his wife very much in return. But he could not accept that fact that she left him without a word, and that has only left clues to him that she had gone to a faraway country to cover a war story. (she was a reporter)

She did not have to do that – her husband was very rich and that she could have lived the rest of her life feeling comfortable and obliged to please her husband, or to sacrificed her freedom and time for him… and live happily ever after --- but she did not do so.

She chose to cover a war story instead. She chose a job that could land herself into even death any minute. A job that could mean no proper sleep and meals and shelter but yet she chose to do the job. She says that soldiers live their lives to their very best each and every moment and she wants to experience how it was like to be so. She wanted to see if she could understand it all and then apply to her marriage and to the man that she loves.

So she embarked on that very fateful and sudden journey.

But before we ridicule her to be escaping reality, can we change our perspective and see that she is actually pursuing love? And that she wants the ultimate happiness for herself and the man that she loves? Even if it means that she will perish in the search for that highest love, at least she will die happy trying. She wants to return to her husband, that is why she was trying so hard to find a place to cover a war and to learn.. she wants to do it fast and to do it right.

She was pursuing for her forever.