Jennifer Niven's Blog, page 478
March 16, 2015
Look what I spied at LAX!
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100 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Commit Suicide
100 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Commit Suicide.
1. We would miss you.2. It’s not worth the regret. Either by yourself
if you failed or just simply left scars, or the regret everyone else
feels by not doing enough to help you.
3. It does get better. Believe it or not it will
eventually get better. Sometimes you have to go through the storm to get
to the rainbow.
4. There’s so much you would miss out on doing.
5. There is always a reason to live. It might not be clear right now, but it is always there.
6. So many people care, and it would hurt them if you hurt yourself.
7. You ARE worth it. Don’t let anyone, especially yourself, tell you otherwise.
8. You are amazing.
9. A time will come, once you’ve battled the
toughest times of your life and are in ease once again, where you will
be so glad that you decided to keep on living. You will emerge stronger
from this all, and won’t regret your choice to carry on with life.
Because things always get better.
10. What about all the things you’ve always wanted
to do? What about the things you’ve planned, but never got around to
doing? You can’t do them when you’re dead.
11. I love you. Even if only one person loves you, that’s still a reason to stay alive.
12. You won’t be able to listen to music if you die.
13. Killing yourself is never worth it. You’ll hurt both yourself and all the people you care about.
14. There are so many people that would miss you, including me.
15. You’re preventing a future generation, YOUR KIDS, from even being born.
16. How do you think your family would feel? Would it improve their lives if you died?
17. You’re gorgeous, amazing, and to someone you are perfect.
18. Think about your favorite music artist, you’ll never hear their voice again…
19. You’ll never have the feeling of walking into a warm building on a cold day
20. Listening to incredibly loud music
21. Being alive is just really good.
22. Not being alive is really bad.
23. Finding your soul mate.
24. Red pandas
25. Going to diners at three in the morning.
26. Really soft pillows.
27. Eating pizza in New York City.
28. Proving people wrong with your success.
29. Watching the jerks that doubted you fail at life.
30. Seeing someone trip over a garbage can.
31. Being able to help other people.
32. Bonfires.
33. Sitting on rooftops.
34. Seeing every single country in the world.
35. Going on road trips.
36. You might win the lottery someday.
37. Listening to music on a record player.
38. Going to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
39. Taking really cool pictures.
40. Literally meeting thousands of new people.
41. Hearing crazy stories.
42. Telling crazy stories.
43. Eating ice cream on a hot day.
44. More Harry Potter books could come out, you never know.
45. Traveling to another planet someday.
46. Having an underwater house.
47. Randomly running into your hero on the street.
48. Having your own room at a fancy hotel.
49. Trampolines.
50. Think about your favorite movie, you’ll never watch it again.
51. Think about the feeling of laughing out loud in a public place because your best friend has just sent you an inside joke,
52. Your survival will make the world better, even if it’s for just one person or 20 or 100 or more.
53. People do care.
54. Tree houses
55. Hanging out with your soul mate in a tree house
55. Snorting when you laugh and not caring who sees
56. I don’t even know you and I love you.
57. I don’t even know you and I care about you.
58. Because nobody is going to be like you ever, so embrace your uniqueness!
59. You won’t be here to experience the first cat world emperor.
60. WHAT ABOUT FOOD?! YOU’LL MISS CHOCOLATE AND ALL THE OTHER YUMMY THINGS!
61. Starbucks.
62. Hugs.
63. Stargazing.
64. You have a purpose, and it’s up to you to find out what it is.
65. You’ve changed somebody’s life.
66. Now you could change the world.
67. You will meet the person that’s perfect for you.
68. No matter how much or how little, you have your life ahead of you.
69. You have the chance to save somebody’s life.
70. If you end your life, you’re stopping yourself from achieving great things.
71. Making snow angels.
72. Making snowmen.
73. Snowball fights.
74. Life is what you make of it.
75. Everybody has a talent.
76. Laughing until you cry.
77. Having the ability to be sad means you have the ability to be happy.
78. The world would not be the same if you didn’t exist.
79. Its possible to turn frowns, upside down
80. Be yourself, don’t take anyone’s shit, and never let them take you alive.
81. Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary. Be your own hero.
82. Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.
83. One day your smile will be real.
84. Having a really hot, relaxing bath after a stressful day.
85. Lying on grass and laughing at the clouds.
86. Getting completely smashed with your best friends.
87. Eating crazy food.
88. Staying up all night watching your favorite films with a loved one.
89. Sleeping in all day.
90. Creating something you’re proud of.
91. You can look back on yourself 70 years later and being proud you didn’t commit
92. Being able to meet your Internet friends.
93. Tea / Coffee / Hot Chocolate
94. Sherlock season three.
95. Cuddling under the stars.
96. Being stupid in public because you just can.
97. If you are reading this then you are alive! Is there any more reason to smile?
98. being able to hug that one person you haven’t seen in years
99. People care enough about you and your future to come up with 100 reasons for you not to do this.
100. But, the final and most important one is,
just, being able to experience life. Because even if your life doesn’t
seem so great right now, literally anything could happen
Reasons Why Every Human Being Alive Should Read All The Bright Places
a (very treasured, very lovely) letter written by Sian
1. Every issue in the book is real.
Unlike the usual fiction books I read for pleasure, I can see the story unfolding in my life and this gives me some control over the situations. As much as I love Harry Potter, the ideas are concealed in a package of magic and the excitement of what isn’t real (or so people tell me, I’m still waiting for my Hogwarts acceptance letter). All The Bright Places takes things like suicide, death, love, sex, friendship, family, abuse and many other ideas and hits you square in the face. While this seems brutal in print, that’s what will happen in life. Love will not find you through dueling wizards and fighting dragons but through conversations and unexpected meetings.
2. Despite being romantic, All the Bright Places doesn’t romanticize suicide.
For the sake of aesthetics and continuity I will explain my reasoning behind this, though I obviously do not need to. Too often has suicide been associated with the desperate love affair of Romeo and Juliet, but the dawn of a new era is upon us. Last year two teenagers in my town have committed suicide within three months of each other. Suicide hits a small town with the ferocity of a bomb and the gossip kicks in. Though I didn’t know them at all, I still felt responsible for their passing simply because our paths ran parallel on this grand journey of life and maybe if I was to go back in time or if a butterfly were to have flapped its wings differently a hundred years ago they would still be here. Though Shakespeare is wonderful, I am disappointed that this year every student in my grade will read Macbeth and not your book.
3. Everyone will experience this book in their life.
As I mentioned before, since I began the wonderful journey that is reading your book I have felt more in control of situations I have faced that are similar to that in the story. Whether this is a rare occurrence or not, everyone should have this experience under their belt. As we are humans exploring this world and every step we take will change it, we will all encounter stigma around mental illness and suicide, the difficulties of letting go, death, loss, change, deciding your future, love, sex, friendship, family, school, abuse and so much more. All the Bright Places will help me in life and I am so grateful to have read it.
As I see All The Bright Places as a living thing rather than lines arranged into letters, arranged into words, put on pages bound together that I stared at for a while, I say this to All the Bright Places but will mention it to you too,
"You are all the colours in one at full brightness."
leefarnell:
NEW VIDEO!Todays video is my review of “All The...
NEW VIDEO!
Todays video is my review of “All The Bright Places” by Jennifer Niven! Easily one of the best YA books I have read in a long time!
Thank you for you amazingly lovely review!!
All the Bright Places
It’s 3:22 am and I just finished All the Bright Places by jenniferniven
And oh god…..
This book changed me.
You guys should read it too and you’ll need tissues, like a lot.
Thank you, Jennifer. Thank you. ❤
All The Bright Places
The problem isn’t the fact that I keep reading All The Bright Places over and over again, it’s the fact that it keeps ending.
inhinyerongmakata:
This book will keep you going. For real! I...
This book will keep you going. For real! I laugh so hard about the characters.
"All the Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
Thank you for reading!! I love seeing all those lovely highlights!
beccathelitwitch:
Easily one of the most beautiful books I’ve...
Easily one of the most beautiful books I’ve ever beheld. (on Goodreads)
Thank you! I love it naked like this!
ireneephan:
My friend is finally taking my word for it, and is reading All the Bright Places. She...
My friend is finally taking my word for it, and is reading All the Bright Places.
She has fallen in love with Finch.
I regret nothing.
Thank you for recommending it!! ❤️️❤️️
