Paper Towns

This was a cute read. I remember high school and feeling suffocated. Of course I wasn't a Margo Roth Spielgelman by any means lol. Life is tough enough already. Being a teen on the verge of having to become an adult (in the eyes of the world) is a scary thing.

Margo did frustrate me a bit as she is portrayed and reads like a spoiled child, however I felt where her character is coming from. She is very lucky to have people care enough about her to come looking, even though she left much to be desired as a friend herself. People didn't even know who she really was....because she didn't let them. Most people aren't interested in who you really are .. they are interested in the idea of who they think you are. But should that be why we let them think that way?

All it takes is to talk and listen in kind and maybe, just maybe, one wouldn't feel empty and alone when surrounded by people. That smile? Could be what makes someone's day. That hello? Could change the trajectory of that person's life. That ear? Maybe....that is what makes a person whole.