If you look at the girl in this picture, in a hospitalized state yet with a smile on her sweet tender visage.
She is on Book Drip. A support at a very wobbly time between life & death.
This is the story of, THE GIRL WHO GOT SAVED BY BOOKS
If you are wondering “what a sweet thing, why then a terrible plight?”
She was tossed up by the crudest time of her life.
But you must know that she wasn’t always in such a pitiful state. Her life began just like anybody else’s where she was brought up by a family true to the name.
She went through childhood, adolescence and even early adulthood in almost the same fashion as the model set up by the rest of the world.
Though, there is this: she might have had to face her share of inopportune moments, backhanded turns and ill fate slaying through many a moment ripe with hope.
That did never stop her from keep traversing the path made for her. She kept true to her journey without the conscious need for a return from it. This innate modesty, perhaps, could have spooked the creator for he put a dream in her.
From that moment on, she was hooked to the dream within her. Every waking moment of hers was spent towards the realization of it. A dream, she deemed had never been dreamt before. Her dream was set in a land of paradise where artists, inventors, revolutionists and thinkers came to live. It was Paris. She wanted the typical aristocratic life of a Parisian, well on a path of style & intellect.
She built up a shrine for Paris in her heart. And strived hard in each and every instance in hopes of getting across the seas and mountains to the most desirable destination. She did crack it eventually, an explorative voyage to the city whose very motto is “tossed by waves by never sunk”.
As one can imagine what a wonder it is to be in the right place at the right time, she was right in that spot. Good fate had finally taken a turn on her. For her part, she couldn’t believe she had finally achieved it! All the toil that would launch her off had been nothing short of a tedious setting for life. Whilst she was dazed by the taste of goodness for the first time in her life, her title as Parisian was also thwarted by unforeseen circumstances.
She didn’t instantly take to the devastation as one might imagine. She still was in a daze from what was blossoming in Paris. This was right when she got intertwined in a romantic plot as well. Her senses were completely clouded by a fallacy of love. She didn’t mind a thing until one day all her hollow projections came crashing down on her. Obviously then she partook in her dismal failure at love and life.
Alas her story had to come to a tragic conclusion. She fell into depression and was sucked into darkness for some time. All hope had vanished and before the will to live could completely vanish too something happened. She got into reading.
Slowly I mean tiresomely slowly, she inched forward towards life from a dead end. Every book taught her something, in doing so it had left back a bit of will to live.
All the heroes she came to read about in this phase of life said one thing in unison: salvage yourself by reading.
The Book Thief instilled in her the idea that WORDS ARE LIFE
The Alchemist felt as the holy bible for dreamers to her
Matilda spoke of the virtue of books to transform any life
The Perks of Being a Wallflower taught her that reading gives you a second life no matter what the sickness of your first life had been.
Dare to Win literally said to her “how dare you think you are the only one to go through such terrible turns of life?”
And so she turned her life around. Otherwise fate would have had her clawing at the walls and turning mad. Books are especially so kind to lives of people forsaken by luck!
This story is nothing but a short autobiographical account of my life. The girl is me.
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