Relationships (they are such a pain!)

   What if you lived in Minnesota near the woods where you are watched by a wolf when you go outside? What if you feel that yellow-eyed wolf is somehow "special"? Will you try to befriend it even though you know wolves are a vicious specie?

   Well, I started reading this book called Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater and its about this girl named Grace who lives in Minnesota and for the last six years she has been watching a yellow-eyed wolf which seemed to stand out from its pack and who watches her back. And once when she was taken by the wolf pack, deeper into the forest the wolf, her wolf, saved her from being wolf food. And, Grace knows that the wolves are actually werewolves so after knowing that, she gets much more closer with that special wolf.

   I think later Grace will meet the wolf in his human form and she would fall in love with him. Because now in wolf form the boy, Sam, feels very close to her and for the first time in six years, he had let her touch his fur and even when the she-wolf of Sam's pack tried to attack Grace, Sam actually protected her which is a very unusual behavior for a wolf. This shows that Sam has feelings for Grace. I think Grace likes Sam as a wolf because she always tries to get close to him and she doesn't want to go in a trip with her best friend's family just because she will miss her wolf and they will be very far from each other. This just shows that if they met each other in human form, they will start loving each other and their feeling for each other will deepen which is very sweet.    

   I really don't have a connection to this theory but I can relate to the fact that sometimes Grace feels like her bonds with her two beat friend's, Rachel and Olivia, are getting weak and she finds it hard to be friends with them. I feel the same way sometimes with my two best friends, Aishwarya and Tanzima because sometimes I feel like we are getting less close and other times I feel like I am not spending too much time with one of my BF's. I try to do my best to do fun things together like hanging out but sometimes one of my BF's has something else to do and go somewhere so we don't get to spent much time together after school. And we can't hang out in the weekends or when we have free time because our parents don't let us go outside and all three of us are mostly busy with homework, families, etc. I wish someday we don't have to care about our family problems and school work and we could just hang out and let our friendship bonds strengthen.

A Nobody to a Somebody!

I just started reading this book called Dork Diaries, Tales From A Not-So-Popular Party Girl by Rachel Renee Russell. It's a really good book which shows all the problems a girl can face in middle school. The main character named Nikki is stuck in a huge problem. She is in the clean up crew for the Halloween dance but when the chairperson, Mackenzie, who is a popular girl who's always trying to steal Nikki's crush, resigns and makes the rest of the crew (not including Nikki's best friends and two other people) just because Nikki's crush didn't ask Mackenzie out for the dance. So now Nikki is the chairperson which means she is in charge of the dance and if something goes wrong it's all Nikki's fault! And if that isn't enough she has her homework and tests and Mackenzie herself to deal with.

Sometimes people feel have nothing on their shoulders to worry about and all of a sudden they got lots to worry about and sometimes people go from nobody from someone very important just because they are in a different position or because that person did something that attracts everyone's attention. I hate that feeling because all of a sudden you go from having no work to having so much stuff to do that it makes your head spin. For example, before the spelling bee neither was I popular, nor I had any work on my shoulders. But after I won the School Spelling Bee I feel like a very important person and people ask me, "Aren't you the girl who won the Spelling Bee?" And whenever I hear this I actually get a bit happy because I want to be known by others beside my friend circle not because I want to be popular but because I love to meet new people and have lots of friends.

"A true friend is someone that knows the song of your soul, and sings it back to you when you have forgotten the words"

   What would you do if you and your best friend likes the same guy? Would you sacrifice your happiness for your friends? Or would you try to get your friend to like someone else so you get the guy you like? Well, that's the decision Lotus has to make in the book The Pillow Book Of Lotus Lowenstein by Libby Schmais. Lotus lives in Brooklyn but she is dying to go to Paris and become an existentialist. Lotus and her best friend Joni are similar and different in many ways. Although Joni is very rich, she wears cheap cloths and likes non-expensive stuff where Lotus is not that rich but loves to buy expensive stuff. But, both friends shares Lotus's love for all things french. So, they start a french club where their only club member, other than Lotus and Joni, is Sean, the new boy. But the problem is that they both end up liking Sean who likes both girl's affection.

   I think Lotus should just give up liking Sean because Joni starts liking Sean first but mostly because Lotus is Joni's best friend and there shouldn't be a problem in sacrificing a little of her happiness for her best friend. Although Lotus and Sean have a lot in common and Joni and Sean have a little in common, Lotus should be much more faithful and loyal to her friend and she should be helpful and happy that finally Joni likes someone who she has a chance going out with (Joni is mostly in love with famous stars). In the book I feel like Lotus acts more like a friend rather than a best friend because if a person's friend likes someone, that person should be happy for a friend and not try to find ideas to get her friend to like someone else.

   If I was in Lotus's place I would actually help my friend get the guy she wants. My best friends Aishwarya and Tanzima mean more to me than anything else and if one of them likes the same guy as me, I would do anything to forget the guy and get the boy to go out with my best friend. I feel like best friends prove that they are capable of being a best friend when they support their friends and make a sacrifice for them. It doesn't matter how big or small the sacrifice is, as long as the sacrifice is meant to support your friend and it came from the heart, it shows that you are a true friend.