Please ignore Vera Dietz

"It's one thing if he wants to ignore it. I guess that's fine. I mean, I ignore plenty of stuff, like school spirit days and the dirty looks I get from the Detentionheads while I try to slink through the halls unnoticed. But there's something about telling other people what to ignore that just doesn't work for me. Especially things we shouldn't be ignoring. 

Kid bullying you at school? Ignore him. Girl passing rumors? Ignore her. Eighth grade teacher pinch your friend's ass? Ignore it. Sexist geometry teacher says girls shouldn't go to college because they will only ever pop out babies and get fat? Ignore him. Hear that a girl in my class is being abused by her stepfather and had to go to the clinic? Hear she's bringing her mother's pills to school and selling them to pay for it? Ignore, ignore, ignore. Mind your own business. Don't make waves. Fly under the radar. It's just one of those things, Vera. I'm sorry, but I don't get it. If we're supposed to ignore everything that's wrong with our lives, then I can't see how we'll ever make things right."

This is the first book I read after my exam, it was good but it wasn't that good. But one thing's for sure its really something teens and young adults can relate to. Life is bumpy and teenage years can be hell. Everyone around in school is trying to become somebody and people are constantly in a fight with themselves, it just makes matters worst for the people around them. Vera Dietz is a good kid, though her life hasn't been very easy, I really loved her dad, though I found her friend Charlie to be a maniac to be quite honest but yeah like I said, the story is still good.

Somewhere along the line, I want to write a young adult novel, I just want to write something that kids can relate to, so that they know that yeah life is crappy but you have to keep going anyway. That friends are important and so is family but what's most important is to figure out who you really are and what you want to be.  

Sometimes, you really wish life came with an instruction booklet, or that we just signs from somewhere like no, turn back. The outcome is not worth it or keep going, things will get better in a week but then I guess we wouldn't learn, and what would be the fun in that? :)

You never know

I tutor my cousin in English Language, I was just going through his class notebook when I read an essay topic he was given to write about. He had to write about a quality he liked about himself and how that particular quality helped him in life. I thought the topic was very interesting, quite honestly I find self discovery very intriguing. He wrote about how he had the ability to keep his calm, not lose his temper. When I gave it a thought I had to agree that I am a very optimistic person. And it is that very optimism that helps me get through each day even though sometimes I feel like I'm in a rut :P

But yeah, I like to see the positive side of everything. I believe that if something's gonna happen, it will happen at any cost, you just have to brush your self up and keep moving forward. Life is filled with endless possibilities and adventures and at the end of the day we hold the power to change our lives by the choices we make. I honestly believe that one person can have more than one dream. But we cant give up and we cant lose hope and we cant stop trying because we'll never know. Anyway, I think all this is just a result of the amount of Disney movies I've watched in my childhood but really, I'm glad I did

It is a useful quality, I've seen alot of people who get depressed, they feel ashamed of their failures and are constantly trying to hide it, I think that's the worst thing you can do because then you're constantly trapped, you have to deal with people and you cant shut them out, you just end up drowning in your own insecurities and you're always scared of making a move in case you trip. But you've gonna learn to trip style and get back up your feet.

Life is great.. if only you choose to look at it that way.