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Fall down seven times, get up eight
Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 7:25 AM
"I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?"
— Jodi Picoult

I watched The Tenth Circle on HBO family just now.
It is based on a novel by Jodi Picoult; My all-time favourite author.
I simply find her novels such a page-turner.
Most of her novels are usually about questioning our own morality, conscience, faith, empathy, compassion and right or wrong.
Basically when I read her book, it would usually hit me hard on the face.
Her stories forces us to think in a way we would have never imagined, placing us in a scenario we would never expect in our entire lifetime.
Plus, she writes in a multiple point of view. That way, we`d get a feel of what each characters are actually feeling.

I read my first Jodi Picoult novel in 2006 and has been hooked to her novels ever since.
The best one so far is, of course, my first book; my sister`s keeper and nineteen minutes.
Right now, I`m currently reading Harvesting the heart.

Anyway, I was browsing through quotes and I found this;

"If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?"
— Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes)

Everyone tries to fit in, really, everyone.
Only someone who doesn`t have any feeling or a flicker of humiliation in his/her bones would disregard having to fit in.
We try so hard to fit in that we tend to forget who we really are.
We show the world our mask, ready-made to fool anyone.
Expectations on our backbones,heavier than the weight of the world.
We are all expected of different things from everyone.
Each time we disappoint, bit of the mask falls off.
We lie to ourselves and others to keep questions at bay.
We pretend we`re fine when we`re actually not.
Why the hell do we need to wear masks when we are already different?
We dress up different, we act differently to variety of situations.
We each have our own funny little habits that makes us an individual.
We laugh, cry, be angry or get hurt to different kind of things.

Truth is, everyone wears a mask at some point of their lives.
Don`t tell me you have never did, not even once.


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