The Storm Is You | Excerpt From ” Kafka On The Shore “
The Storm Is You | Excerpt from ” Kafka On The Shore “
“Kafka On The Shore” shares two people’s inter-connected tales of self-discovery. A damaged fifteen year-old named Kafka, an illiterate and magical old-man named Nakata, one fleeing from something, the other searching, one looking forward, the other looking back, one with a bright future ahead of him, the other with a dark past. Two very different people, yet their fates are intertwined by something so inconspicuous. The book presses the boundaries of what exists around the characters versus what exists in their minds. No wonder the book was on the New York Times “10 Best Books of 2005” list.
In the following excerpt from the book, author Murakami Haruki throws his outlook on storm in our life ! How do we ward off a storm? What can we do to shrug off that creeping sense of losing control? How do we know whether we’ve traveled safely through the storm or are still in it ?
The Storm Is You | Excerpt from ” Kafka On The Shore “
“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn’t something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn’t get in, and walk through it, step by step. There’s no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That’s the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.
And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore
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