In a good book you
hit what I like to call a point of no return. The point of the book where the
rest of the word stops and you will not put the book down for anything, you
deprive yourself of sleep, food, hygiene, social interactions for the sake of
the book to get to the end to find out what happens and do a victory dance
while saying “yes I’ve done it!” (the very feeling that made me want to jump
into the Books for Nyanga project). I’ve hit that point with my trip to South
Africa. The point of no return where I’m so close to finishing and yet so far
and the amount of things that must be completed between now and then, like the
daunting number of pages between the point you are at and the end of the book.
I have become extremely excited to go home to graduate, to jump into the next
books I’ve set up for myself, to see friends and family but I have so many
things I still need to do, here, in South Africa. Thus I have found myself in
the same predicament that many avid readers, especially Harry Potter fans, find
themselves in. Readers begin to ask themselves do you put on your blinders and
throw yourself into the pages of the book or do you torture yourself slowly by
dragging the book out to prolong the joy of reading but prevent yourself from
being able to return to a normal state?
The end of this
trip will come whether I like it or not but I am determined to ensure I enjoy
the next month and continue to take everything in while trying to conquer the
treacherous amount of work placed in front of me. There will be times when I'll need to sit down and just throw myself into something, or read a good chunk of
pages so to speak, but I don’t think this trip will be the end of the series so
there will definitely be more victory than bereavement at the end of this
amazing experience, much like there is at the end of a great book.
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| Liz standing in South Africa while looking ahead. |
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