I love reading. I read Warriors. I read Percy Jackson and the Olympians. I read Cirque Du Freak. I read Vladimir Tod. I read The Mysterious Benedict Society. I read Pretty Little Liars. I read The Frog Princess series. I read Peter Pan and The Star-Catchers series. I read Alphas (a series by Lissi Harrison). What do all of these books have in common besides the fact that I absolutely love them? They are all below my level of reading.
I understand when books get to easy for someone they should stop reading them and move on. But what if you can't? What if you love a book so much that you are not going to stop reading it? I don't think we should ever give up the books we love no matter how easy or hard they are. Besides what defines a level of reading? How much you can understand and comprehend the text? If you come across 5 words within the first chapter that you don't understand?Why does everyone NEED a level?
When I was little my mom used to read me the story Snug House Bug House. It's a baby book with only 2-4 words on every page. And yet when I come across it in my house somewhere; under my mom's bed or in my little sisters room I'll pick it up and read it. Even if it's just to remember all the times my mom read it to me and when I could read all the times I read it to myself.
Books carry memories from the times you read about all the drama the characters are getting themselves into to when you saw the book for the first time and read the blurb to see if it was a good book to read. I don't think I could ever stop reading all those books I mentioned. They're just amazing. Even when the day comes to move on (and that day is coming sooner than I hoped) I won't stop reading them. I just won't read them quite as often.
Monday, November 29, 2010
Monday, November 15, 2010
How do you use the word "no"when talking to yourself?
Craig is anything but normal. He is depressed. He can't get through school. He can't handle eating or sleeping. It's as if life for him is one big task that he just can't do. But the weird thing is, he seems okay with it. As if he realized there is no help coming to him. That, he just has to accept that he is depressed and not going to get better. He tries to make it better. He tries to have a Shift. But all he gets are Fake Shifts. And he turned to suicide as he realized that nothing was going to help.
If we have something coming to us, that we can't help, something that we don't want to happen with all our might, do we accept it or stop it? Do we even try to make it better? Or do we just give in and let it come? To me, it all depends on who's inflicting it. Is it some one younger? Some one who I can say no to? Is it some one older and wiser who says "we want to help you"? When do we get the power to say no?
Craig has the power to say no. In fact, we all do. We just don't realize it until it's too late. If Craig really wanted to, if he wanted to make it better, he could do it. We have power over our selves. We have a conscience. I can make my self do what ever I want. If I wanted to become depressed I think I could. But I don't. I have Anchors. If Craig could just hold on and grip those Anchors like his life line, he could make it through. I know he could. I know because he was strong enough to go to the hospital by himself. He didn't kill himself. He got help. He got help because he does want to live. And he has Anchors that he doesn't know about yet. All he has to do is find them.
My only question is weather or not people talk to themselves. Or conscience, our guide that tells us right from wrong is ourselves. We make the decision to do some thing bad. We make the decision to do some thing good. And the way I do that is by talking to myself. I do it all the time. It may seem strange or weird, but we all do it. It's that stream of thought inside our head that is constantly at conversation with it self. People think things like "her dress is so cute" and "oh my god. I forgot to do my homework. I'm in so much trouble". This is basically talking to yourself. I have the other me that's just a clone of myself that I talk to to figure things out like math problems. Craig has the army guy that he talks to when he's feeling bad. We all have someone.
Who do you have? Who do you talk to?
If we have something coming to us, that we can't help, something that we don't want to happen with all our might, do we accept it or stop it? Do we even try to make it better? Or do we just give in and let it come? To me, it all depends on who's inflicting it. Is it some one younger? Some one who I can say no to? Is it some one older and wiser who says "we want to help you"? When do we get the power to say no?
Craig has the power to say no. In fact, we all do. We just don't realize it until it's too late. If Craig really wanted to, if he wanted to make it better, he could do it. We have power over our selves. We have a conscience. I can make my self do what ever I want. If I wanted to become depressed I think I could. But I don't. I have Anchors. If Craig could just hold on and grip those Anchors like his life line, he could make it through. I know he could. I know because he was strong enough to go to the hospital by himself. He didn't kill himself. He got help. He got help because he does want to live. And he has Anchors that he doesn't know about yet. All he has to do is find them.
My only question is weather or not people talk to themselves. Or conscience, our guide that tells us right from wrong is ourselves. We make the decision to do some thing bad. We make the decision to do some thing good. And the way I do that is by talking to myself. I do it all the time. It may seem strange or weird, but we all do it. It's that stream of thought inside our head that is constantly at conversation with it self. People think things like "her dress is so cute" and "oh my god. I forgot to do my homework. I'm in so much trouble". This is basically talking to yourself. I have the other me that's just a clone of myself that I talk to to figure things out like math problems. Craig has the army guy that he talks to when he's feeling bad. We all have someone.
Who do you have? Who do you talk to?
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