I've just read a book today...

I've read a book today. Its not really for someone my age, but it really stuck to me, one of the quotes.

The book is called The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky, and its a book about an American high school freshman, who narrates the stories in the form of letters, being written and sent to some unknown receiver.

The Teenager, Charlie starts off by talking about the recent suicide of what appears to be a friend, just before the start of the new school year. As the book progresses, it talks about Charlie making friends with a new group of people, who accept him, for all the quirks that he appears to have.

As I continued reading the book, I felt like I was connecting with Charlie, because while I did not show myself to overly emotional, nor was I traumatized like Charlie was, I went through most of my life confused.

I still do go through my life confused, actually. The reason I wanted to talk about this book is that, there is this quote that made me realize what I was doing with my life. The quote is as follows:

“I would die for you. But I won’t live for you.”

The reason this quote really sticks with me is because, all my life, I’m living for someone else. And it scares me, because I think it’s for this reason that I may end up doing what Charlie’s friend did. So I don’t want to live my life for someone else anymore. At least not right now. I want to live my life first.


Anyways, that’s just how I feel. I just want to thank my friend, CW, for recommending this book for me to read.