Great Expectations Book Review

Some times we just sit and wonder how great it would have been had ‘that’ happened.
What is that ‘that’?
That ‘that’, that is not in your diary is the existence of the real you. You are a product of nothing else but your own examples. The best teachers in the world are never the most successful. This is what life eventually teaches as you proceed either succumbing to or conquering your nemesis.
In the story also Charles Dickens portrays that how at different stages of life a person’s demands change, how he seeks new aspirations and eventually meets a metamorphosis in one or the other form.  
As a child we dreamt of superheroes and fantasised adventure at every corner of the vicinity. We got some of it, drained the other part in form of negligence or fear and lived by the set norms of individuality. Individuality was always described as being different from others rather than being what our thoughts would make us. We lost the real us somewhere there.
When we grew up a little, there was a constant urge to excel in one field or the other. A virtual rat race! We competed with a culture that had no mention in any religion or any civilisation. We compromised our own self. This stage perhaps made us successful professionally or may be personally as well, but it wasn’t the real us excelling. It was the modulated us.
There is an incessant endeavour for being accepted, be it in our office, school, college or club. We live never for ourselves but for a masked army of people called ‘the society’.
We found someone that became important all of a sudden. For most of us it came from the other sex, but for some others it had to be from the same. For some, the important one was not a human but an animal. These are the consequences of the existence of the real you, of the ‘that’.
How magical and sublime is the fact that we start involving in someone else and that someone else occupies much of our thought process?
This is where the power and opportunity of rediscovering ‘that’ lies. You are now no one else but yourself. You can act intelligent by every mannerism and even amuse with you folly.
The fear of being charlatan disappears and subsequent example is set for no one else but you to look at and learn from.