Anushri Prabhu asked Khaled Hosseini:

"They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind." Such a powerful quote! Who or what was the inspiration behind this quote? Or was it your own experience?

Khaled Hosseini Thank you, Anushri. I think we all can look back at our lives with some degree of surprise. Few of us are where we thought we would be, I know that is certainly true for me. When you think of the goals and aspirations you had as a young person, and you take stock of your current life, there is such a gap. You set out be one kind of person, lead a certain kind of life, and at some point things do not go as planned -whether in a positive or negative way- and you look back and see that the path you have taken, the epiphanies you have had, the changes that have come over you could not possibly have been planned and can only be understood in retrospect.

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