Like a home for rent, a million people come to stay in this world. Some go soon while others stay for a longer time. Anne would have thought of renting here a little longer, maybe even a bit more longer than the 15 years she was to live.
Whatever she wrote is just one among her umpteen thoughts in a day and the things she left unsaid would have been more sadder to read I can say. She complained of trivial things at the start, but as the days progressed, she seemed hopeful of a normal life, a life with no war! You know what i feel - when the war ended it was not really a scenic moment to capture with people leaping in joy, because hundreds and thousands of souls departed long back waiting for the war to end, just the ones like Anne Frank! The people who remained wouldn't even have been able to lift their heads to see who has come to rule.
And the final three years of her life she shares in her diary is so heartwarming and funny to read. I haven't gone to the final part yet, but I know the dreadful fate that awaited this smart and cheerful child. To read the vivid account in her own words is quite moving.
I cannot refrain from comparing how our lives go on right now in this free,noisy and busy world to her quiet and confined life in the dungeon.
Her account of the everyday activities in the 'Secret Annexe' is so amusing that it is easy to forget that she was living a life in hiding. It is complex to imagine times like that, of having to go to school one day and go invisible the next day in your own town.
Looking at her guileless smile, I cannot conclude whose mistake it was that she was not born a 60 years later!
