he's so damn right!

very seldom u find a writer who can describe the emotional level so explicitly that u think he someohow has god-like intuition. Coelho just did it. By the River Piedra I sat down and wept is another beautiful well-written masterpiece of him. at one occasion when Pilar the center character in this story had a doubt, worrying her action may stir a chaos to the villagers (as an old man warned her not to enter the church), her man simply told her not to fall into 'playing a role'. what is playing a role.. she asked.

u see, it happen to us too most of the time. as he described.. playing a role, are those who always have to be doing battle with someone else, and sometimes even with themselves, battling with their own lives. thus, they create a kind of play in their head and they write the script based on their frustration. however they cannot play it all by themselves so they begin to invite other actors to join in.. as a result when we agreed to bind to certain rules given, to just listen to others' criticism on us, we are part of the role playing... see.. Coelho is so damn brilliant!

he continued describing that when others make us believe we're the victim or make us behave like victims; complaining about the unfairness of life and ask us to agree, to offer advice, to participate, it means we are also invited in playing a role. if we accept this we will always wind up losing.

uhhh ..Coelho is just superb!