The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Last Airbender.

So, first off, I have had an immobilized wrist for 6 days and am already entertaining thoughts of cutting it off.  The cast, of course, not my wrist, for how would I be able to the things I love with no wrist?  Twould be a difficult life, 2 hands and 1  wrist, and doesn't sound like the life for me.  I also hear that amputees have this thing called "phantom limb" where they can 'feel' the body part that is no longer.  Naturally, that scares me, although it is an interesting phenomenon to my brain.  Also, my writings are wanting to be shorter and farther apart, for it is difficult to type with one hand.  However, this helps my thought process and I thoroughly have enjoyed my past 8 posts, so I must bear the pain.  Rawr, like a bear.

So, I just read The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky in the past 4 hours, and talk about an interesting book.  I just now saw that it is being made into a movie to be released September 21.  This must be seen.  I see that Emma Watson is in it as Sam (if you have read it then you know who I am talking about, if not, too bad, you need to read it) and I was a little confused because I thought she has some importance on modesty (greatly admire that if true) and the book is quite risque, but I also see that it is rated PG-13 so I am going to look at something really quick...
I went to look to see if Chbosky (who is also directing the film) took out the sketchy parts to make it more suitable and it sounds like he did.  Watson is quoted as saying, "I wouldn't say it's too risqué, but it's definitely more Hermione than you've ever seen before."  So take that for what you will.  Here is the link for the trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dY5EbgJTvI.  Anyway, onto the book.
Most all of it left me feeling weird and confused, so let me explain.  The lifestyle's that the book portrays are definitely not lifestyles I would approve of.  I will do my best not to provide any accidental spoilers.  The confusing thing is that I really appreciated it.  I shouldn't really be so confused because I have frands that have lifestyle's I don't approve of, but I did.  The story is about a kid on the fringe of life who is taken under the wings of a group of seniors and his thought process through the whole thing.  It is a very real book about the issues everybody (at least every guy) faces but from a very unique perspective.  I appreciate it's realness, but I didn't know if I would like the book til it was done and I decided I really did.  It's a hard one to put to words.  I guess my feelings about it can be summed up a couple of ways, starting with this quote, "So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons.  And maybe we'll never know most of them.  But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.  We can still do things.  And we can try to feel okay about them."
The next way is, simply to face ourselves, view ourselves from the outside.  I tend to do this too much, however, but this book made me think.  Do I do it too much or in the wrong way?  But facing ourselves and our pasts is important.
The last way is the paragraph directly following the last quote I shared, just a different idea with it.  "I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset.  And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.  Good and bad."  This is a very different concept than how we often think about the world, but it makes us think about love and what our love is like.  I don't know, it's just interesting.
"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite."

This is me after I read this book.  Yay.

So now Avatar: The Last Airbender.  This series made me feel a couple things as well; like I have no life was one, but also confused.  I didn't get confused until the last few episodes, but I will explain that later.  I remember wishing I was an Airbender, and dreaming about it all the time as well.  It was cool.  I think I said before that this was the one series I wished I would have watched this series in its entirety before, but I finished it yesterday, so I guess late is better than never.  Okay, here is why I was confused, bash me for this all you want, it's da twufe.  So, I am a pacifist, and I suddenly realized that the culmination of this series was the death of the Fire Lord.  I often thought much about how they did a good job not showing death in a kids movie, but I never thought about the end.  Suddenly they entered this whole ordeal about Aang killing the Fire Lord and I got scared because if he would kill the Fire Lord then I would be really disappointed in this series for my own reasons and they built it up a bunch like he was going to (sorry for the spoiler).  But then he didn't and I was happy, there is always another way, it may just be really hard to find, you may need a Lion Turtle to show you, and you may have to go against what all your friends say, but there is another way.
I wish I had a Lion Turtle.  Make it a good day.

Interesting picture of bending...