Fools make premature statements,
jumping passionately to false conclusions. Wise ask questions and walk steadily
to the correct conclusion.
After a life lived, May
learns how extraordinary an ordinary life is in the web of love and hate,
sorrow and joy, friends and foes, good and evil, knowledge, understanding and
ignorance, truth and illusion.
May was born with an open mind and introvert
heart. Rest of her character is chiselled by war, loss of her mother, wonderful
friends, life-long desire to know her father and the great disappointment when
this desire is fulfilled, and other significant and small, happy and sad events
of her life.
When she meets Harris, a former army
officer, May finds fate generous – his strength helps her overcome her greatest
weakness.
Professionally, May chose a humble path
in life, though some believed she should do more. Her unique (right or wrong)
perspective of the world, that she shared with Benjamin in café River, combined
with her education, made some believe May belongs with leaders. However, is May
one of the wise who lack confidence?
Future events lead May out of the
civilisation and into the mountains. While the mountains granted a refuge from
people (averting those she wished to avoid, welcoming those she loved), they
could not protect her from fate; and fate followed to please and torment.
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