Just finished reading The Hunger Games trilogy, and of course I loved it! Midway through the first book I realized I was dangerously close to become attached to the characters in the book like I am to the Harry Potter series. yes yes, nerd is my middle name and I take a lot of pride in it.
No my blog post is not a book review centering around the Hunger Games, nor is it an overview of the books either, for those too lazy to actually read them. If you're curious, go read. Or like most lazy people who think the movie of a book is a good substitute, by all means, watch the movie next March.
Never is a movie ever what the book is.
The Hunger Games is about what the next world will be once we all die. Humans, yes. But what kind? Will they be as compassionate as us. But first, are we compassionate? Have we earned that right?
The more people you love, the more vulnerable you become to those who want to destroy you.
The more people you try to protect, the thinner your protection to each of them.
The more you care about their safety, the easier it is to harm them.
The more people you let into your heart, the more easily it is in the danger of shattering.
When you love, you leave yourself exposed to that which can destroy you.
Never for a moment think the world is full of self-less people, because it isn't.
Everyone wants someone to protect and someone to protect them, someone to love and someone to love them back.
But is that safer than just looking out for yourself alone?
Where you have no one to think of, no obligations to fulfill, no one whose back you need to watch
no one you need to protect, a one man army maybe?
But my best friend says such people lead a sad life, with no one to love, no one to look after them.
He says you have to become vulnerable to have people who love you, you need to see how scary real life is before thinking it is okay to be alone without any support.
To give someone else the power to destroy you from inside through someone close to you is a very scary thing.
But we all do it, knowingly or unknowingly.
Maybe when the time comes to have enough knowledge to be able to chose between these options, who knows what the person beside you might choose to do?
No my blog post is not a book review centering around the Hunger Games, nor is it an overview of the books either, for those too lazy to actually read them. If you're curious, go read. Or like most lazy people who think the movie of a book is a good substitute, by all means, watch the movie next March.
Never is a movie ever what the book is.
The Hunger Games is about what the next world will be once we all die. Humans, yes. But what kind? Will they be as compassionate as us. But first, are we compassionate? Have we earned that right?
The more people you love, the more vulnerable you become to those who want to destroy you.
The more people you try to protect, the thinner your protection to each of them.
The more you care about their safety, the easier it is to harm them.
The more people you let into your heart, the more easily it is in the danger of shattering.
When you love, you leave yourself exposed to that which can destroy you.
Never for a moment think the world is full of self-less people, because it isn't.
Everyone wants someone to protect and someone to protect them, someone to love and someone to love them back.
But is that safer than just looking out for yourself alone?
Where you have no one to think of, no obligations to fulfill, no one whose back you need to watch
no one you need to protect, a one man army maybe?
But my best friend says such people lead a sad life, with no one to love, no one to look after them.
He says you have to become vulnerable to have people who love you, you need to see how scary real life is before thinking it is okay to be alone without any support.
To give someone else the power to destroy you from inside through someone close to you is a very scary thing.
But we all do it, knowingly or unknowingly.
Maybe when the time comes to have enough knowledge to be able to chose between these options, who knows what the person beside you might choose to do?
