same.or.different
Was that really it? Will wondered. Was that what they were all doing, looking for someone less different? Was that what he was doing? Rachel was dynamic and thoughtful and focused and caring and different in more ways than he could count, but the whole point of Rachel, as far as Will was concerned, was that she wasn't him. There was a flaw in Katrina's logic, then. This thing about looking for someone less different... It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in the first place.
The above excerpt came from Nick Hornby's book [About A Boy].
On the author of the book - Hornby's style of writing goes easy on your eyes and mind, very contemporary, very everyday. And the fact that his novels are usually not more than 2cm thick (paperback, all of them, or at least I never saw his literature bound in hardcover) made it easy to stash in the bag as a 'spare-time-filler' entertainment. Having said that - it still took 2 months for [About a Boy] to fill in all my little spare minutes. Talk about being a slow reader. =)
Same or different? That is the question for today.
So do/did you spend your life (or the earlier part of it for those who have committed to matrimony) looking for a person who's similar or different from you, to spend the rest of your life with?
My rating: 7/10
Labels: Books