Falling In Love Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager for it we may be, the experience may still elude us. Contrarily, the experience may capture us at times when we are definitely not seeking it, when it is inconvenient and undesirable. We are as likely to fall in love with someone with whom we are obviously ill matched as with someone more suitable. Indeed, we may not even like or admire the object of our passion, yet, try as we might, we may not be able to fall in love with a person whom we deeply respect and with whom a deep relationship would be in all ways desirable. This is not to say that the experience of falling in love is immune to discipline. Psychiatrists, for instance, frequently fall in love with their patients, just as their patients fall in love with them, yet out of duty to the patient and their role they are usually able to abort the collapse of their ego boundaries and give up the patient as a romantic
" I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night." —The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini. It's an absolute must-read book. I had heard from almost everyone about how great this book is. I had to google it and the reviews induced me to read it. I finished this book in just three days and it got me crying like a loony. The Kite Runner, published in 2003 by Riverhead books, is a tragic and heart-rending historical fiction. It takes the reader on the roller coaster of emotions as it covers the moments of grief, ecstasy, guilt, regret, tragedy and betrayal. The story sets in the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan and portrays the hassles of Afghan world. This novel narrates the tale of two closest friends, as good as brothers, Amir and Hassan. Amir is a well off Pashtun boy and Hassan is a lower caste Hazara boy, w