Calories, calories, calories. I swear it's like a cuss word. I'm so tired of having to count my calories and worrying about how much I weigh. Why can't people just be happy that I'm finally eating again? I've struggled my entire life with body image. I've always thought that I was fat. Now, I feel like I am. Every time someone asks me when the last time I worked out was or what I ate that day. It's depressing.
I just recently finished "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak. I had no idea what this novel was going to be about going into it; all I knew was that our 10th grade English class study it. Right off the bat I noticed that our narrator was not your average Joe. The narrator is death. When I realized this I said to myself, "Oh this is going to be good." The novel is all about the Holocaust and it is shown from a German point of view. Leisel Meminger's mother gives her away to a foster German family. On the trip to this new family, Leisel's brother dies. So right from the start death is there. I'm not going to give you a synopsis of it, because I think you should read it for yourself. Just know that a German family hides a Jew in their basement for a while, and death is around every corner. That last line of the novel really got me though..."I am haunted by humans."
I totally understand. When my family monitors what I eat constantly but they eat what they want to,it's so depressing. I don't judge them for what they eat,so why am I being judged.
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