Tuesday, January 18, 2011

10:32 PM

Its really true how you can find so many different new things in a book even if you have read it so many times before. At every stage of your life, at every new reading, something you never saw in comes up. Everytime. Its really amazing.

Thanks to the wonders of technology (and phone apps), I have just started re-reading an old favourite of mine. A classic, really, but I don't believe many have read it. If they have, probably not past the first book, because its the most famous, and I won't have known there were sequels if I had not stumbled across them one day so long ago in the library (yes, I used to visit the library very often. I should make it a habit nowadays too).

Anyway, the book I have rediscovered is Anne of Green Gables. And there are 7 more books after that extending her story throughout her life. Its incredible how this one book can immediately cheer me up. I get to see the world through Anne's eyes again, and she is one who can look at almost anything and create a whole world of imagination. Somehow it has freed me from the mundane existence I think I lead now, and helped me to appreciate things much more. She lives in a beautiful countryside, with a brook and a tree just outside her window. I had envied my Swiss buddy for having a green hill as a backyard, but at least I live in Singapore, with its clean streets and greenery everywhere. She appreciates and she loves, and I think I had forgotten how to do that for a while.

I think it was really timely for me to discover these books again, because I had grown so tired of everything, and my issues with work had threatened to overshadow all other aspects of my life. But now I remember that there is so much more to life, to appreciate, to love, to live.