Three Cups of Tea

This will be ending my blogging about books for a week because I am now officially a week ahead and can take some time to do some much needed knitting and maybe even some much needed posting about knitting (there are socks in progress, again, this is monumental).  But today's post will be about the book Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin.
This book I didn't read in one day, it took me several, and I finished it so that I wouldn't have to take the trip to the library by myself.  I did enjoy it but I don't think as much as one probably should.  There were too many hardships and you kept having to remind yourself that this is real life and these things really happened.  Which all came crashing back when 8 years into the book came September 11, 2001.  It's an inspirational book and should be taken as such but I prefer this quote from about the middle of the book:

The first time you share tea with a Balti, you are a stranger.  The second time you take tea, you are an honoured guest.  The third time you share a cup of tea, you become family, and for our family, we are prepared to do anything, even die ... you must take time to share three cups of tea.

In a time in the world when everyone wants to go faster and faster and get things done faster it needs to be said that you need to take the time for the simple things in life.  To build relationships with people and to enjoy life how it is today.  It comes back to the knitting.  Yes we all know that you can go and buy a pair of socks for a dollar (somewhere) but they aren't the same socks, they aren't something you made, and it's also the process that it took to get you those socks that is just as enjoyable as having a new pair of socks.

Anyways maybe next time I'll even have a picture of these socks,
Lady Polly