I finished If I Stay! It didn't disappoint me, at all! I know why everyone loves the book, and the movie. It's intriguing, and feelings of happiness, sadness, and confusion happen all the while. It's inspiring, and you can take this however you would like. It could be taken as an inspiration to do more with your life because any day it could be over, or help you think through decisions more carefully.
If I Stay is about a girl named Mia, and her family. One day when school was cancelled for a snow day, Mia's family went out for a drive to visit their friends, seeing as they just had their first child. It was just a normal drive any family would have; fights, and conversations. After a little disagreement on what to play on the radio for the lengthy drive, another car collides into theirs. Mia doesn't know it yet, but she is outside of her body. She and her family, have serious injuries. She finds her parents, but not her little brother. She begins to get worried, and tries to search more, but the ambulance arrives at the scene for their bodies. From then on, Mia is in her hospital bed, piecing together the parts of what happened.
If you get this book, you'll read about Mia's memories, and how she finds herself. This is, again, an awesome book a lot of people need to read. I recommend it.
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Friday, May 8, 2015
If I Stay
I'm doing another blog about If I Stay. This book is really nice, I like this thing I kind of took from it. I take a lot of things from the book, but I'll share two with you.
Decided whether you stay or not: I take this in everyday life; sometimes you feel you have nothing to live for, but you do.
Mia thinks her family is gone now, there's nothing to live for. Then she sees her friends, and her grandparents (how they visit her/seem worried). When you're in a position where you have an option, go or stay, what will you pick? Stay with your family, or end your misery. Either option has a consequence; so what will you do?
Don't care what others think!
I see Mia as being someone who looks at how people see her; how her boyfriend and her look like, and what people perceive her as because she plays the cello, and likes classical music. She tries to change herself in one of her memories she explains, she says that she attempted to abandon her cello. When she did, her friend Kim noticed. Mia-because it was her decision-didn't see anything wrong with it, but Kim told her it what makes her Mia. It doesn't matter if people label her as "cellist," if she enjoys it, she should continue. She's happy as she is.
If you're happy the way you are, don't care what anyone says/thinks about you! You're you, and only you have the power for happiness.
Decided whether you stay or not: I take this in everyday life; sometimes you feel you have nothing to live for, but you do.
Mia thinks her family is gone now, there's nothing to live for. Then she sees her friends, and her grandparents (how they visit her/seem worried). When you're in a position where you have an option, go or stay, what will you pick? Stay with your family, or end your misery. Either option has a consequence; so what will you do?
Don't care what others think!
I see Mia as being someone who looks at how people see her; how her boyfriend and her look like, and what people perceive her as because she plays the cello, and likes classical music. She tries to change herself in one of her memories she explains, she says that she attempted to abandon her cello. When she did, her friend Kim noticed. Mia-because it was her decision-didn't see anything wrong with it, but Kim told her it what makes her Mia. It doesn't matter if people label her as "cellist," if she enjoys it, she should continue. She's happy as she is.
If you're happy the way you are, don't care what anyone says/thinks about you! You're you, and only you have the power for happiness.
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