Neha's Notebook

Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho My rating: 0 of 5 stars All of us, in one way or the other, are mad. Madness. What exactly is this madness? How can we differentiate people who are mad, from the ones who are not mad? How can we endeavour to define who is crazier than whom? And what fallacy is there, if at all, in being mad and in going crazy in our life? And if there isn’t any, then why are we humans so afraid to be crazy and different? Why are we so eager to lean upon the shoulders of security, relationships & things like that, in order to feel safe, secure and loved in life? If you wouldn’t have to think about what other people will think of you, then would you still resist following the way of your true madness? For, it is only when we eat the fruit of good and evil, is that we start hiding our own unique insanities, and craziness. But aren’t these also the very qualities that make us uniquely different from the rest of the people? Perh...

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho My rating: 0 of 5 stars Destiny. Every living being has a destiny. If you look at it this way, you’ll realize that, even something which is regarded as non-living, has a destiny. Too. Isn’t a discarded plastic bottle too, merely a flunkey poodle moppeted by the wind and by the sun and the rain and all? Doesn’t it flips and flurries at the orders of life, too? For the plastic bottle, it is the wind and the sun and the rain who governs and leads its destiny. Who governs the throne of the palace of choice in the kingdom of ‘your’ unique destiny? What would you do if you were presented with an opportunity to venture on a journey of treasure discovery, provided that, on the way you’d require to give up everything that you might have accummulated ever since, and to lose all that, that you have? Would you proceed and take a step further to dig through to discover the treasure, or would you back off, thinking of the dreadful con...