Like an Open Book

         

   Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi writes in the last 'Farewell' chapter of his Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography.

"My life from this point onward has been so public that there is hardly anything about it that people do not know."

I have always been stressed upon by my father to live a life like of an open book. I don't know whether he wants me to become a public servant or a secluded academian. But I am assured by the way he has lived that to live a life like an open book is to live a life of a true human being - true to his nature. Sometimes, I wonder if everthing is to be revealed? I don't think so. But, I was perplexed by this notion. And, when I came to read this refered to quote of M. K. Ghandi, I came to realise what truly is a life like of an open book. And, now I realise how difficult it is to live such a life on everyday basis and why my father has been telling me this for more than a decade.