Riddled.

Author's Note

                   

This is a book about all the people who feel like the world doesn't understand them, like they don't fit in, like they can't find their place between others. This will be the home of those fleeing our judgmental society. It's a manuscript for the people who love, for the people who smile, who laugh, who hurt and those who cry; for the ones who feel deeply. This is a book for those who search for persons who understand them in everyone they meet, those who search for something they can relate to in a book, so they know they're not the only ones experiencing such things. They want to find comfort in something that will remind them of themselves. When life suffocates you, you search for the souls who will understand you, you search for a tool that will help you escape whatever is hurting you, and maybe this book will be it. It doesn't have to be with words, some things you see can relieve your pain. This book contains all of the emotions that I could find, so everyone finds a part of themselves in between the sheets of paper, and maybe these words will allow them to live better. All of us experience so many feelings, and adventures, and events during our lifetime; those are what makes us different, what makes us unique. It could be a book for those experiencing heartbreak, those who lost loved ones, those who suffered and those who are searching for some good in this dark world. This is a book for people like me.

Love, sacrifice, death and many others are treated with such care and passion, the feelings, I tried to pass on gently. Life throws many of us in situations where we think we're drowning, only because of our tears; we begin seeing everything as blurry and thinking that our end is near, and that we will give up soon but we always survive, in the end. The people who get up and fight after losing one battle are warriors that I would like to highlight throughout this book. They are important people who might not be aware of it. Each one of us reads to forget the bitter taste of reality, and I hope you use this book as an escape.

If it is summer, then I would advise you sit on a couch and make yourself comfortable. With a cold glass of your favorite juice next to you, and a cute paper mark to know where you last stopped reading, make your eyes scan the pages so they don't miss a thing. I have stolen the idea of comfort from the 'préface' of a French author, but I couldn't help myself. Each one of us has his own idea of comfort, so instead of copying him, I used his idea to create something new, and exposed my own version of happiness. Absorb my words until the cells in your brain turn them to images. Underline your favorite lines with a yellow marker, so you can return and enjoy them again, or so you can use them in your daily life, as weapons, as lessons you have learned. Read in between the lines and think about the hidden meanings in the words that are clear, because most of the time, the things that we perceive as clear are actually blurry. And if it is winter, then wait until night time, wrap yourself in your favorite blanket and make some hot chocolate, then begin reading. The important thing is, make sure you're comfortable, and surrounded by things that make you happy. Books can bring us happiness, but only if we allow them to, because they turn on our imagination, and the things we imagine always have meanings and cause smiles.

These pages are very precious because when we scan inked words, our knowledge increases and our value as a human does too. Our eyes are always attached to white screens that we are missing the best things about this world, which are clear, but you can only see them if you open your eyes widely. I'd rather have my eyesight going bad because I read too much than have it go bad because my eyes are attached to a screen all day. Books bring something new, because our mind always creates, but technology will always be the same, no matter how much it improves. The smell of old pages, the feel of a thousand pages, and even the image on the cover of books are, and will always be revolutionary. Some perceive libraries as art museums because of the different shapes and colors that books come in. Our ancestors were cultivated people who knew a lot, because their worries weren't to look their best on Instagram, or tweet something meaningful on twitter, or even share an important status on Facebook. They read, and then knew how to speak, and then knew how to act. They learned so much, and had no time to waste. We teach them about technology now, but they were taught about the most important things that we are ignoring now when they were younger.

I hope you find yourself or someone you know in each and every character in this book, and I hope they teach you something about life so you live better, because everything we do becomes a part of who we are. Read as much as you can because your brain will stock new phrases and quotes that will only increase your culture, and as I said, your value as a human being in our society.

A book can be whatever you want it to be. It's yours.

"On n'écrit rien hors de sois, ça n'existe pas." – M. Duras.

-NouraDandachli / Aladea.