Meliha
March 18th, 2012, 08:05 AM
This is intended as back cover of my book. Please, be brutally honest… Please!
Revised 'take II': :)
Only the extraordinary long for an ordinary life.
May was born with a photographic memory, open mind and introvert heart. Rest of her character is chiselled by war, loss of her mother, great friends and regretting the desire to know who her father is.
When she meets Harris, a former army officer and witness to various tragedies, who is brave with emotions, May finds ‘Aphrodite’ generous – his strength helps her overcome her greatest weakness.
May’s unique (right or wrong) perspective of the world may have accomplished a change if only it was heard outside café River. But, May chose a far more humble path in life.
Future events lead May out of the civilisation and into the mountains. While the mountains granted a great refuge from people, they could not save her from fate; and fate followed to please and torment.
After a life already lived, May finds her subtotal generally positive, but no more extraordinary than anyone else’s.
Revised:
May writes about the time of her life when she returned from London to her war-torn homeland. She was naïve to think everything is as she left it; devastation of a war erased her from that geographical location, the only place where she could live, so she had to build a new life.
Starting with her Aunt and one friend, May meets new people, some of whom will remain her treasured friends, and one will be the love of her life. Harris, a former army officer and witness to various tragedies, is certain about his emotions and they don’t frighten him. When it came to May, he wastes no time showing her how he feels.
In their small town framed by green hills and mountains, there’s a café on a bank of the river that flows through the valley. May started her lonely journey in the café River, but her loneliness was to be short lived since Harris knew the barman. Benjamin invites May to join him at the bar any time. Their conversations were often related to some social issue or element; whether gender related, economics, religion, science and so on.
By the time May puts pen to paper, times have changed, people view the era of her youth negatively. During her youth, she didn’t think her ideas deserved to be heard outside café River and her circle of friends. Hence, when her life became burdened by the injustice of Harris being wrongly imprisoned and having to watch her daughter grow up without knowing her father (which May had endured herself) May thought nothing about how she stopped talking about the world and left it to live in mountains.
Was May selfish to abandon civilisation or did civilisation abandon her first? Was there anything she could have done differently?
After all the struggles and pain, May’s fate had numerous surprises, some to please her, some to torment her; but, that’s just life.
The world endures a great catastrophe that alters perceptions and May learns that her conversations with Benjamin may not have been a waste.
“Don’t wait to leave your footprint.” – May would say about her book ‘Just Another Life’.
Old version:
“Don’t wait for the future to leave your unique and positive footprint on the world.” – this is what May would say about her book Just Another Life if she believed her ideas were at least as good as her professors claimed. But she never, not for one moment thought her ideas deserve to be heard outside café River and her circle of friends, which often numbered ‘one’ – Benjamin, the barman.
By the time May puts pen to paper, times have changed and people view the era of her youth far more negatively than she ever thought possible. Not that she gave much thought to how the future will see her era; being too busy with life: working, helping others, settling back home after the war and her life in London, making new friends, coping with cultural differences, falling in love, getting married, and then the injustice of her husband being wrongly imprisoned and watching her daughter grow without knowing her father, which was May’s own fate and greatest void she had to endure, May stops even thinking about the problems of the world, stops talking about them and moves away to the mountains where her husband always looked for refuge.
Was May selfish to abandon civilisation or did civilisation abandon her first? Was there anything she could have done differently?
And, after all the struggles and pain, May’s fate had numerous surprises, some to please her, some to destroy her – a person can get away from people, but never from fate.
Just Another Life; because life is precious.
Revised 'take II': :)
Only the extraordinary long for an ordinary life.
May was born with a photographic memory, open mind and introvert heart. Rest of her character is chiselled by war, loss of her mother, great friends and regretting the desire to know who her father is.
When she meets Harris, a former army officer and witness to various tragedies, who is brave with emotions, May finds ‘Aphrodite’ generous – his strength helps her overcome her greatest weakness.
May’s unique (right or wrong) perspective of the world may have accomplished a change if only it was heard outside café River. But, May chose a far more humble path in life.
Future events lead May out of the civilisation and into the mountains. While the mountains granted a great refuge from people, they could not save her from fate; and fate followed to please and torment.
After a life already lived, May finds her subtotal generally positive, but no more extraordinary than anyone else’s.
Revised:
May writes about the time of her life when she returned from London to her war-torn homeland. She was naïve to think everything is as she left it; devastation of a war erased her from that geographical location, the only place where she could live, so she had to build a new life.
Starting with her Aunt and one friend, May meets new people, some of whom will remain her treasured friends, and one will be the love of her life. Harris, a former army officer and witness to various tragedies, is certain about his emotions and they don’t frighten him. When it came to May, he wastes no time showing her how he feels.
In their small town framed by green hills and mountains, there’s a café on a bank of the river that flows through the valley. May started her lonely journey in the café River, but her loneliness was to be short lived since Harris knew the barman. Benjamin invites May to join him at the bar any time. Their conversations were often related to some social issue or element; whether gender related, economics, religion, science and so on.
By the time May puts pen to paper, times have changed, people view the era of her youth negatively. During her youth, she didn’t think her ideas deserved to be heard outside café River and her circle of friends. Hence, when her life became burdened by the injustice of Harris being wrongly imprisoned and having to watch her daughter grow up without knowing her father (which May had endured herself) May thought nothing about how she stopped talking about the world and left it to live in mountains.
Was May selfish to abandon civilisation or did civilisation abandon her first? Was there anything she could have done differently?
After all the struggles and pain, May’s fate had numerous surprises, some to please her, some to torment her; but, that’s just life.
The world endures a great catastrophe that alters perceptions and May learns that her conversations with Benjamin may not have been a waste.
“Don’t wait to leave your footprint.” – May would say about her book ‘Just Another Life’.
Old version:
“Don’t wait for the future to leave your unique and positive footprint on the world.” – this is what May would say about her book Just Another Life if she believed her ideas were at least as good as her professors claimed. But she never, not for one moment thought her ideas deserve to be heard outside café River and her circle of friends, which often numbered ‘one’ – Benjamin, the barman.
By the time May puts pen to paper, times have changed and people view the era of her youth far more negatively than she ever thought possible. Not that she gave much thought to how the future will see her era; being too busy with life: working, helping others, settling back home after the war and her life in London, making new friends, coping with cultural differences, falling in love, getting married, and then the injustice of her husband being wrongly imprisoned and watching her daughter grow without knowing her father, which was May’s own fate and greatest void she had to endure, May stops even thinking about the problems of the world, stops talking about them and moves away to the mountains where her husband always looked for refuge.
Was May selfish to abandon civilisation or did civilisation abandon her first? Was there anything she could have done differently?
And, after all the struggles and pain, May’s fate had numerous surprises, some to please her, some to destroy her – a person can get away from people, but never from fate.
Just Another Life; because life is precious.