is real life way crappier than books?

[PostCardashian]

I love stories because in so many of them girls like me have awesome stuff happen to them. But don't they ever make you think, like, gak your life is soooo dull?

[[deleted user]]

you read my mind... ok exciting stuff happens every once in a while in real life, but adventures like these in books... Oh, sometimes i wish i could just turn into the heroine and have the same adventures, problems, face my fears, love like that.... Sometimes i just can't help it :)

[PostCardashian]

✫•°*”˜˜”*°•annelise ✫ the graceful one•°*”˜˜”*°✫ wrote: "you read my mind... ok exciting stuff happens every once in a while in real life, but adventures like these in books... Oh, sometimes i wish i could just turn into the heroine and have the same adv..."

compeltely. like these girls, whenever there's a new guy at school he's one, super handsome and two, an angel or something
but actually new guys at school had to leave their old school because they were weird. or else their Dad changed his job and they spend all their time online with their old friends.

[[deleted user]]

PostCardashian wrote: "✫•°*”˜˜”*°•annelise ✫ the graceful one•°*”˜˜”*°✫ wrote: "you read my mind... ok exciting stuff happens every once in a while in real life, but adventures like these in books... Oh, sometimes i wish..."

IKR... and there's the other thing thing that they say, like 99% of the guys are hot and the 1% goes to my school... which is freaking right...
and with all these adventure they have they are never bored, they get more mature and get to know the real world, which for them it's battles, loosing the people you like, betrayal but also friendship, love, trust...
I'm not saying that it's good having to deal with war and loss every day, but it part of their world and who they are...
but in our reality... It's just sadness, rage, hatred and loss, with very few people to care about you...
And that's why i catch myself once in a while dreaming that i am Clary or Tessa (from the infernal devices series) or some other heroine with a bright future ahead of her...She can be a warrior, a fighter and not just a teacher, a computer programmer or work in a shop...

[chinami]

Zarah wrote: "i know!!
it tottaly suks but thats what books r for right? to escape into a diffrent world?"

I second that

[PostCardashian]

but also my dream is to be a marine biologist and i don't know if i can do it, but if i can then life might be an adventure.
i just don't want to wait so long... :(

[C.C.]

PostCardashian wrote: "I love stories because in so many of them girls like me have awesome stuff happen to them. But don't they ever make you think, like, gak your life is soooo dull?"

Agreed, sometimes I wish my life is like the ones from the books. :))

[Julie]

I know!! It's not fair!!!!
~J

[Amanda (Gale's Chosen One)]

I agree.
I wish i could live inside a book. Especially the Infernal devices.
I think that's why girls love fictional books so much. The life and world is so much more exciting.
Not to mention the female always has an option of two amazing guys to choose from while most of our love lives are non existent.

[J.D.]

Okay, so I guess I'm guilty of this. In my story I took a normal girl and changed her school to one where she had a couple of hot guys chasing her.
But, at the same time, the world I put them in is mainly real. All the places are real, and in the 2nd book I take her to some seriously exciting, yet real places.
I guess I'm older than you girls, but my life has been really exciting so far and it's all been REAL.
it's up to you!

[Amie]

i love reading a really great book that completely transports you to a different world :) but when i finish the book, i tend to come back down with a bit of a bump and have to sit there for a moment to truely absorb whats happened in the book :L :)

[Yvette]

✫•°*”˜˜”*°•annelise ✫ the graceful one•°*”˜˜”*°✫ wrote: "you read my mind... ok exciting stuff happens every once in a while in real life, but adventures like these in books... Oh, sometimes i wish i could just turn into the heroine and have the same adv..."

true true when new kids go to my school its becasuse the were eitherto smart to be at their old school ot they were forced to go to the school ps i go to a nerd school

[J.D.]

Yvette wrote: "✫•°*”˜˜”*°•annelise ✫ the graceful one•°*”˜˜”*°✫ wrote: "you read my mind... ok exciting stuff happens every once in a while in real life, but adventures like these in books... Oh, sometimes i wish..."

at least a nerd school is kind of different... I mean it's not exactly VA or Hogwarts or whatever, but it's not so vanilla? maybe?

[Remi D.]

Ughhh! I wish life were like books. Imagine going to Hogwarts, Mythos,or that Gallagher Girls Academy. Why can't nerds have super powers?

[Samantha The Escapist]

With the exception of a very very excellent novels, not really.

If real life were like books (particularly the Mortal Instrument books) everyone walking around would have the same voice and vernacular which would be creepy. Adults would be oddly ineffective which is an unsettling thought for me being that i'm more an adult than I am a 15 year old at age 24.

And as one of these characters you'd have to stop caring about everything you are as a character. Think about how you fill your day, if your day is filled with all this book stuff you lose who you are. I wouldn't have TIME to paint and write and work and play with my pets and go running. When I was 16 and 17 I had a great relationship with my mother and brother and we spent lots of time together.

Besides if you really want adventure in your life it's easy enough to make it. As long as you're responsible and safe with things you can travel the world for different jobs with little prereqs, I lived in the wooods for 6 months at a remote campground and it was the time of my life.

Also if I could give one word of advice it would be that the truly romantic and tortured boys like in these novels get really annoying when you actually date them. REALLY annoying. Clingy, whiney, and SO tortured you want to snap them out of it. Sure it's a whirlwind romance but it doesn't tend to last and when it's over you're pretty glad :P

But yes, I'd go to Hogwarts in a heartbeat :P

[C.C.]

Samantha wrote: "But yes, I'd go to Hogwarts in a heartbeat :P "

You're not the only one :)

[Flora]

Harry Potter?

Yes. I really hope books come real. But still, imagine all the books you've read coming true. Cree-pyy...

Anyway, I luv sarcasm. :P

[Simplyminali]

real life is both better and worse than books. its true books have more action, but what about if there actually were hunger games? what is valentine were real? that could be life threatening!

[george ☽]

Simplyminali wrote: "real life is both better and worse than books. its true books have more action, but what about if there actually were hunger games? what is valentine were real? that could be life threatening!"

agreed :)

[Rachel]

I love reading because its everything my life isn't. Exciting, romantic, and all tht other good stuff. Hopefully though, when I get older and start my dream of traveling, my life will be much more thrilling.

[Tasha]

Totally.

[Abigail]

we can all say that one book or more have made us think are life is dull and un-exiting but other can make you value your life and make you know that life is worth living.

P.s: i hope you guys think this is wise advice coming from a 13yr old. (im trying to use more emotvie language for my GCSE next week)

[Natalia]

I honestly feel like my life is so boring compared to books. I know that they are fictional and stuff like that doesn't really exist (but who knows?) but I always wish that someday my life will be taken on a whirl wind adventure like Clary's was. I live in a small town and nothin happens here, and books like the MI or ID just makes me realize how much my life sucks! But, I am only 14, so maybe I can hold to a hope that I will be whisked away on some adventure when I am 16. However, chances of that are like 1 in google!

[[deleted user]]

I do understand completely. I often read books that make me a bit sad that my life isn't more exciting and I am 30!!! But you know what? I think life is just what we make of it. If you (or I) want adventures, I think we have to go out and find them. If we want to be awesome, strong and kick ass, we should be it. And if we want to believe in those lovely book boys and that powerful book love, we should believe in it. I mean, what's life without a little adventure anyway! And if you are 13/14/15 then just think of all that wonderful time still ahead of you to find and live it all. Perhaps books are a reminder of possibilities out there, and that if we want magic, we should make our own. Someone once said (although I don't remember who!) 'it is the belief in something that makes it real' :)

[Abigail]

Amanda wrote: "I do understand completely. I often read books that make me a bit sad that my life isn't more exciting and I am 30!!! But you know what? I think life is just what we make of it. If you (or I) want ..."

thats great advice

[Samantha The Escapist]

Natalia wrote: "I honestly feel like my life is so boring compared to books. I know that they are fictional and stuff like that doesn't really exist (but who knows?) but I always wish that someday my life will be..."

I just want to let you and the other younger ones out there know that even though most of these books are about age 16-18, the best part is after high school. I left and never looked back and I feel like I've had lots of adventures. I've had a few crazy whirlwind romances, I've done a lot of things that I would NEVER let my nieces do and now I'm with an amazing guy who is not the tragic hopeless romantic of these books but my best friend and it's so much better.

[J.D.]

Natalia wrote: "I honestly feel like my life is so boring compared to books. I know that they are fictional and stuff like that doesn't really exist (but who knows?) but I always wish that someday my life will be..."

I should add that i hated highschool, nothing happened, then i left and i've lived in 8 countries and I'm a writer.... FUN

[Rachael]

Amie wrote: "i love reading a really great book that completely transports you to a different world :) but when i finish the book, i tend to come back down with a bit of a bump and have to sit there for a momen..."

Me too- Its a hard bump back too reality!