Dare Digital: And then you broke my heart

I live through seeing and reading. I have experiences through others.

I am a sage in a young womans body.
I learn from others' experiences and keep myself level headed.
I do lots of things for myself, but human relationships are something i've always lived through others.

so no, i've never been in love.

We are only as strong as we are united

Harry Potter.

Now I know what you're thinking...this silly young girl thinks Harry Potter changed her life? Oh how she needs to get her heads out of the clouds.

I never liked to read. Actually, I hated it. Forcing me to read a certain number of books in grade school only made it worse.

When I was about 16 I had really started becoming my own. I was over being in high school and I was doing things because I wanted to, not because adults made me do them. I cared about my classes, really, for the first time, and I realized I liked to learn.

Over the summer between my junior and senior year the fifth Harry Potter movie was coming out. I had been a huge movie fan, but had never touched the books. But the previews were doing a less than satisfactory job of explaining to me what this "Order of the Phoenix" was about. And my mother with a not so sharp memory, couldn't even start to explain what happened.

So I picked it up. This 870 page book I began to read, it was going to be a challenge, but I really wanted to know what to expect. I read, and read and read for days. It took me 5 days to read it; incredible, considering books with 200 pages max that I was required to read I never actually finished. Once I finished I felt exhilarated, I realized I had been missing out on something great.

And for the next two weeks I read every harry potter book that had been published. I loved every minute of it. Now I love to read. That was a life changing book and moment for me.

ricky

Ricky Gervais.
Bill Cosby.
Zach Galifianakis.

WHAT? I'm in my 20's; had to do some youngin' representin'.