Happy Birthday
31st of July.
Joanne Kathleen Rowling was born on this day. I wrote her a thank-you note. Telling her how she had shown me the beauty that the world had, and the best part about it was that she successfully did that with the help of a world that did not exist.
It was magical, reading a book about children fighting off the evil in the world with magic, the irony however was that all this talk about magic, and wild theories and beasts that did not exist brought me closer to the reality around me more than I would have liked.
Maybe I thought too much into it, maybe it is just a book about witches, wizards, and dark lords, but isn't that the whole point of reading fiction? We seek refuge in the lives of people who don't exist to find an escape from our own, however, what really happens, is that every single time, without fail, we end up finding things, emotions, and situations in there that are so similar to our own lives and then we learn.
Rowling gave me a complete world of people who were so much like me and yet so different, she had her flaws, she did, but she did what she thought was right.
This is what I wrote for her on her birthday this year,
Joanne Kathleen Rowling was born on this day. I wrote her a thank-you note. Telling her how she had shown me the beauty that the world had, and the best part about it was that she successfully did that with the help of a world that did not exist.
It was magical, reading a book about children fighting off the evil in the world with magic, the irony however was that all this talk about magic, and wild theories and beasts that did not exist brought me closer to the reality around me more than I would have liked.
Maybe I thought too much into it, maybe it is just a book about witches, wizards, and dark lords, but isn't that the whole point of reading fiction? We seek refuge in the lives of people who don't exist to find an escape from our own, however, what really happens, is that every single time, without fail, we end up finding things, emotions, and situations in there that are so similar to our own lives and then we learn.
Rowling gave me a complete world of people who were so much like me and yet so different, she had her flaws, she did, but she did what she thought was right.
This is what I wrote for her on her birthday this year,
There have already been quite a lot of people who have been thanking Rowling today for giving them a world they never knew existed, and are now grateful to know that it does.
Here is another Thank you. A thank you to not only Rowling but to all the people who never failed to tell me how absolutely magical this piece of writing is.
You've given birth to a lot of thoughts, ideas, and epiphanies in my mind... I've looked for love in the smallest of places and learned to fight hatred in the worst of situations. Luna taught me this.
It seems crazy to love something fictional as if it changed you somehow; but the fact is, it did. And it always will.
I will still cry every time I read the part where you did not do justice to Remus and Tonks's death... but I will also laugh every time I read the part where Harry made a fool out of himself in front of Cho. {Numerouusss Times}
Thank you for making me an even crazier Fangirl than I already was...for helping me make friends with people unknown to me.
A very big Thank You and a very Happy Birthday...
I meant every word up there, but now that I think about it, I realize that maybe I got way too invested in fantasy and fiction to realize that there are pieces of writing and literature about things that have happened in our history that are waiting to be read, which are not as widely known about as they should be.
You've given birth to a lot of thoughts, ideas, and epiphanies in my mind... I've looked for love in the smallest of places and learned to fight hatred in the worst of situations. Luna taught me this.
It seems crazy to love something fictional as if it changed you somehow; but the fact is, it did. And it always will.
I will still cry every time I read the part where you did not do justice to Remus and Tonks's death... but I will also laugh every time I read the part where Harry made a fool out of himself in front of Cho. {Numerouusss Times}
Thank you for making me an even crazier Fangirl than I already was...for helping me make friends with people unknown to me.
A very big Thank You and a very Happy Birthday...
I meant every word up there, but now that I think about it, I realize that maybe I got way too invested in fantasy and fiction to realize that there are pieces of writing and literature about things that have happened in our history that are waiting to be read, which are not as widely known about as they should be.
The battle that took place between Dumbledore and Grindelwald somehow started mattering much more than the one that took place between the Ottomans and the Habsburgians.
This is what worried me, I wondered how the things that actually happened and shaped our present are just pieces of history today, ones we couldn't care less about. So, here is a happy birthday wish to J.K. Rowling, along with a promise that as long as I remember to learn from the fiction and fantasies that I read, I will not forget the real battles and promises that happened before these.
I promise.
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