Love--Life ---Reality

Books, I believe offer us such solace that it is incomparable to any other form of respite existing on earth. I as an individual, have always been drawn to the concept of love. Love in any form, to me is like a divine connection, one that transcends the worldly boundaries placed around us. The last two books that I read- IQ84 and We the Living exposed me to two different facets of love, that I am brimming with thoughts and realizations that need to be penned down to help me make sense of it all. 

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Love and eternity, have so often be used together, probably to give expression to the timeless existence of this emotion. But what in reality is this eternity ? Isn't time itself a deceptive entity and so on what grounds do we use eternity as a measure of this emotion?

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Where IQ84 set my pulse racing with the thrill of what the protagonists, two people deeply in love, but separated by parallel existence in alternate worlds would encounter, would their worlds ever merge to the singularity of existence. On the other hand, We the Living seemed like a reality check on how circumstances and life as it morphs love into something that is unknown. Set against the background of the Russian Revolution, the lives of three people who give up everything in the quest of love end up in circumstances they would have never envisaged themselves in. 

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The female protagonist, once hailed as a feminist, who looks down on men, chooses to be the mistress to someone to save the life of her beloved. Two men, one whose principals and ideals were larger than life chooses to be the arm candy of the rich- the existence of whom he had detested and the other who gave up his very beliefs and ideals and ultimately his life for the one woman he loved.

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Its difficult to say if they found happiness; what they did discover was the reality which in itself is like an illusion. And this is where these two works of fiction pull me in. Both culminated into a so- called reality. I get fascinated by how everything fits together.

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Love.

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Life

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Reality

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These alternate worlds that we imagine, aren't they part of our own physical existence, brought to the forefront by adversities and unrest. And if so, what is it that we all are seeking?

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I realize that that for each one of us, there is a distinct reality- one that is defined by the present and the past, like two alternate versions of the world.

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And the future, well that is the impetus for all the unrest inside us, isn't it?

-S.