Anyone Else Finished?

So I stayed up until 3am last night finishing the silly book! I don't know what got into me, but I think I just needed to feel a sense of accomplishment. I've been catching up from our trip to Texas, and I still have so much to do. As soon as I get something under way, it seems like something else needs attention. I figured a book can not become un-read, so I decided this would be a neat thing to accomplish! All that to say... I'M FINISHED!!!!

What a great book! Definitely disturbing much of the way through, but totally enlightening as I consider the lives of people across the globe. I've been trying to think about my favorite line of the book, and so far, I think it's this:

"'That's the real Afghanistan, Agha sahib. That's the Afghanistan I know. You? You've always been a tourist here, you just didn't know it.'" (p. 222)

I mean, can you imagine coming to the conclusion that someone speaking to you in this way was totally right on and that you couldn't deny it any longer? Can you imagine going through your entire childhood into your mid-life and realizing all of a sudden that you never really understood the lives of MOST of the people around you? Do any of you feel like you've already experienced things like this? I mean, it could happen here in America just as well as anywhere else--it would just look different, I guess.