“The Wedding” by Nicholas Sparks

Ive started reading more lately, just to get back to that feeling of euphoria when you read an amazing book and can’t put it down until you finish. These few sentences in the book struck me as being so simple yet so bluntly truthful. All those posts we see online and everywhere else about women being hard to understand get me really upset. It doesn’t upset me because I’m a woman and I’m apparently offended. It upsets me because many people in this world just like to think of women as some mysterious beings and that’s it. They stop right there and don’t put the effort into realizing that you don’t need to understand someone fully to be able to love them unconditionally. Thats what love is all about. We never understand people 100% but what carries us through the journey of life is the willingness to stay and love the people in our lives more and more, despite the lack of understanding. When we overthink or even undermine the importance of the people we love, we’re at risk of losing them, and that’s a tragedy. Go ahead and show how much you love your mother, sister, girlfriend, wife, because in the end, we may never fully understand them but we love them just for being in our lives. Life doesnt guarantee full understanding of anything, so some men in this world should understand that too: you don’t need to know everything, you just need to know when to love, compromise, and bring joy in the relationship. If she meets you halfway, thats an amazing sight to see. If she doesnt even take two steps forward, though, then you need to know where to draw the line. Women are complicated but in the end, if she brings joy in your life, you’ve found a great person in your life and they are definitely hard to find. 

*Sufi Spirit…Love overcomes all adversities* Written by F.F.

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Top Picks for Best Literature #2: Harry Potter Series

Now before you read this, keep one thing in mind: I am a complete Harry Potter fanatic. I practically spent my childhood waiting eagerly every year for the release of the next book, and bought it the day of the release.
It wasn’t just a story about magical shenanigans or a little children’s book about magic and dragons. It was something much more than that to me. I began writing a diary around the time “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”, and I kid you not, my diary’s name was Norbert (If you’ve read the books you already know who I’m referring to, and If you havent- It’s the name of a dragon 🙂 )

I remember I was in 4th grade when we read “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” together in class, for a few months. We read the book as a class, until we had finished. As soon as my teacher, Ms. Silverstein, called out for volunteers to read, my hand shot up in the air. I LOVED reading out loud in class, I would get so into it that for a few minutes, it would be just me and this book and its characters. Nothing else mattered. In 5th grade, I’d carry around books 1-4 in my school bag plus my school books just so I could read any of them whenever I wanted. Thanks to the Kindle and many other technological advances now, no one has to lug these huge books around. But I did it. And I’m sure many MANY of you can relate to the obsession with Harry Potter.

Harry Potter taught me so much about life, its ridiculous. There needs to be a college course about Harry Potter in every college because let me tell you something: EVERYONE can learn something from it. There are numerous lessons about friendship, betrayal, ego, love, hurt, obsession, joy, hatred, etc. Every character’s story is so deep yet so simple, that you begin to feel like you’ve known these people personally. I began feeling like I could relate to Hermione Granger. I myself spent many of my school years looking frazzled, answering every teacher’s questions, acing exams, and having few but close friends. Then next thing you know, I began relating to Ronald Weasley, because of him feeling left out of certain situations many times. I’d relate to Harry Potter in the moments where I felt I was overwhelmed by love (or sometimes hate) that I received. I’d feel like I could relate to him when me and my friends would do the most daring things for each other. I’d feel like Snape when I felt like I had to keep some huge secrets in me, possibly forever.

These characters weren’t just characters: they came alive through J.K. Rowling’s amazing writing. I felt like I’d eaten, walked, sat with them. I’ve read each book over 50 times, without a doubt. And I’m not ashamed of it. I’m proud of the fact that my morals have been indirectly based off a series of books that managed to keep me happy, become my companion, and also teach me so many things that I failed to learn through actual teachers. Teachers may have taught me math and science and whatnot- but these books, they taught me how to be an amazing friend, an amazing sister, how to deal with the most difficult situations thrown at you, and how to deal with loss, etc. I highly recommend ANY of these books. Oh and trust me, I will DEFINITELY be posting more about Harry Potter. Enjoy!

*Sufi Spirit…Love overcomes all adversities*

Our Top Picks for Best Literature: #1: For One More Day by Mitch Albom

This dynamic writer takes a topic, a topic that we mostly avoid in this society for reasons unknown, and weaves an amazing and inspirational story around it. In “For One More Day”, a philosophical novel that was published in 2006, we follow the story of a mother and son. A son, Charley “Chick” Benetto, who comes across many problems in areas of love, his life, and finances. Weaved around mortality and life lessons, this book takes us on a journey from this life and beyond, helping us see through Charley’s eyes the hardships he went through, the decisions he made, and the adversities that we all can relate to. We come to see how a person might make use of one more day, to reconnect with a lost relative. Mitch Albom grasps the reader’s attention from the first page, and reels you into Charley’s life, going on an emotional roller coaster of his ups and downs. This book is definitely one of Albom’s greatest pieces of literature, and a definite recommendation for all.