Thursday, 10 May 2007 ;
21:13
i was on a book buying spree.. it just killed my wallet.. no actually my wallet didn die.. not yet.. it just fainted out of pure exhaustion of losing so much weight suddenly.. anw.. here's a short story (its actually not fictional) fr one of my fav authors..
Paulo Coelho: In the Blue Mountains
The day after my arrival in Australia, my publishertakes me to a natural park close to Sydney. There, in the midst of the forest that covers an area known as the Blue Mountains, are three rock formations in the form of obelisks.
'They are the Three Sisters,' my publisher says, and then tells me the following legend.
A shaman was out wolking with his three sisters when the most famous warrior of the time approached them and said:
'I want to marry one of these lovely girls.'
'If one of them marries, the other two will think they are ugly. I'm looking for a tribe where warriors are allowed to have three wives,' replied the shaman, moving off.
For years, the shaman travelled the Australian continent, but never found that tribe.
'At least one of us could have been happy,' said one of the sisters, when they were old and tired of all that walking.
'I was wrong,' said the shaman, 'but now it's too late.'
And he transformed the three sisters into blocks of stone so that anyone who passed by there would understand that the happiness of one does not mean the unappiness of the others.
oR sO sHe sAys..-
Kaiyan