26 December 2010

Apples and Patience




Some excerpt from The Kite Runner.
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"How long?" Sohrab asked.
"I don't know. A while."
Sohrab shrugged and smiled, wider this time. " I don't mind. I can wait. It's like the sour apples."
"Sour apples?"
"One time, when I was really little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and become hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about apples."

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Simple things that happen around us, can be the door to a great wisdom.

6 comments:

zikri said...

how long is long............

Anonymous said...

selama yang Allah mahu la kot kan hanis?

Anonymous said...

Apple pun led to discovery of gravity by Isaac Newton.

Hah, apple je kan (nampak sangat pengaruh ke-tidakmelayuan-nya)

Bila la nak durian ke, rambutan ke yang- to put it in your words -can be the door to a great wisdom.

:)

tepianmuara said...

>hanis , anonymous

haaa. dah ada orang jawabkan, nis.

the patience in you will have the final say.




>aeisyulillah
ha, wisdom alam melayu dah banyakkk la wan.

=)

Nur said...

You must love this book very much, aiii? No?

I search high and low for this book, however, lately, I have no patience to finish a novel. It's too long. And I, who become easily bored, are no longer a suitable candidate for novel-readings.

If you have time, do visit Jeffry Archer. Short stories of course. Or, Roald Dahl short stories for adult. Me, I can breathe the fear on my skin. To that extend.

Owh, how's Genetic?

tepianmuara said...

alahai tuan, tak perasan komen yang ini, maaf.

i do love this book. hate it too. =)

thank you for suggestions.

Genetic? not great, not bad. hah.