I always thought I loved reading, but suddenly I realized I loved characters. I loved the people who were neither good nor bad nor ugly, but transparent. I loved the fact that I could crawl inside their skins and feel what I have never really felt; at times it was love, sometimes deep sadness and sometimes a passion I never knew existed in me. But whatever it was that I feel it always made me feel amazingly alive… ironic how fiction can make u feel more alive, but that’s how it was.
Some characters or people, as I like to call them, have affected me more than the others. But when I talk about Scarlett O’Hara, I`m not sure if I crawled under her skin or she crawled under mine. It surprises me sometimes how can someone be so real and so relevant in one’s life. I love her because she brought me face to face with what I always didn’t want to believe I was. She showed me my courage and I was possibly the only person who could relate to her so strongly.
“The worst that can happen to a woman is that she is no longer afraid of anything”- it scares me, to see myself reaching that point where I would not be scared of anything. That’s how strongly it pulls me. It talks about a woman’s strength when driven against a wall. The book has a certain honesty and truth about it which can be felt through the pages.
Certain portions in that book has affected me deeply and has made me into a better person. People read gone with the wind as a romantic novel but I believe that book is so much relevant even in the time when people are struggling so hard to be relevant again in their own lives. It talks of the times which are changing and it talks of the strength it takes to cope with the change. It’s a book so removed from and yet so significant in the present scenario, it makes u believe in the power of imagination, in the power of human mind.
Day and again I have seen that book and the kind of passion it evokes in me is surprising. I have seen people discard it as another romantic novel, my advice to all of them is even if just for once see the bigger picture, it might not be beautiful but it is a view which makes u feel alive and powerful.
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