Done.

            Today’s discussion in class really bothered me. I do agree that everyone has dark secrets that they are too scared to admit to themselves because I do have them. But, I think that others may have more extreme thoughts than others. Today’s discussion only discussed super extreme thoughts and I really could not relate to them. I have never been so annoyed in traffic that I wanted to kill someone, that is not my main priority when I am trying to get somewhere. Like I said in my last post, I just want to get from point A from point B, I don’t really care who gets in my way because I know I will never see them again, so why waste my thoughts on them? Everything was way too extreme today and I am not an extreme person. All of these thoughts about killing people, it’s scary. It’s scary to think that people would actually act upon them. But, if I think about killing someone I don’t think it’s a dark secret. I think it’s something that everyone thinks about at one point in his or her lives. The scary part is imagining the way you are going to kill a person; that I have never done, and hopefully never will do. Yes, I would like to just poof someone away, but I don’t want to cause him or her physical harm. I do think that things got out of hand today with weird kind of accusations flying around, but it was a controversial conversation so it was expected. This book really has not taught me much about myself. I already knew a lot about myself by studying psychology last year. Psychology to me was not just learning the facts and memorizing them. It allowed me to look deeper into my mind and understand my way of thinking. To me it was not just a boring class; it actually opened my eyes to the world around me and the people around me. When we first began to discuss the novel I really enjoyed it,  but the more we got into the book the more I began to hate it. I honestly do not care what this man says about my life, my life is mine, and my mind is my own so no one can tell me how I think because no one knows the truth about me. Yes, it was a generalized so it could speak to a broader audience, but I really did not like the way he believed that everyone was the way he said they were.

            This book was worth reading because as Melanie said perfectly “everything is worth reading”. The discussions did help in understanding the novel, but I was over it in the end. What I am most likely to remember is probably nothing to be completely honest. I am the same person I was before I read it and I never had an “aha” moment while reading it.