Since my last blog post, I have started a new book called "It's Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini. To read about the novel, click here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_Kind_of_a_Funny_Story
One of my friends can connect with the main carachter Craig. Craig suffers from depression and does not live the ideal life style of a typical teenager. He has struggles everyday by trying to keep his emotions together and deal with life. One day he gets so fed up and he feels as if suicide is his only way out of his struggles. He decides to phone his local Suicide hotline and they tell him to check into a hospital. My friend went through almost everything he went through. She has never been completely put together in her mind and her struggles sometimes overpower her thoughts. She does not feel good with her image and always questions her presence on this earth. And just like Craig, she keeps all of her pain bundled up inside herself. Both of them are so inspirational because they both manage to pull themselves together and take on the battle of a new day. The quote from the novel "I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare." proves how brave the two of them are. Nightmares are terrible experiences, imagine living them every day.
