Ek Duje Ke Vaaste 2|Chat Club#12 - Page 20

Originally posted by: Isabel

Finally..........I found your reply...was hunting for it.......I also did most........similar time.......but still try to read few........I like many authors.......to name a few..........Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy, Harper Lee, F. Scott Fitzgerald...

Fascinating ones! I like them all up to some extent. Mark Twain's adventure classics are good. I had loved reading the Great Gatsby (I think the movie did not offer much justice)

My personal fav are Little Women, Heidi and the Wizard of Oz. I am always in awe of Louisa M. Alcott.

Originally posted by: alina.b

Tbh I'm so happy that my parents are so chill...they never pushed us for studies or activities...but it's not the same with my cousin...he's 15 and he's always stressing about academics, debate, volunteering, baseball....he just enrolled in a summer program for high school students and he's trying to get a tutoring job....I think he likes being busy but sometimes I feel like he doesn't get time to just be a kid...he's already worrying about college and taking advanced courses in high school....to be honest, I didn't even think much about college until I turned 17 😆 maybe I'm too laid back in life

Different kids have a different perspective in life..........none of you're wrong........some kids like to be busy.....they don't miss much of being..........so-called kids.......type........I'm aware...many teenagers spend time partying.........playing..VGs......bothering other people.......those are not productive........they've so many potentials.......they're wasting..........

Originally posted by: Isabel

You really...came back to correct that....?🤣

No no. I was here only. Replying to some messages😆

Originally posted by: Bucky

Fascinating ones! I like them all up to some extent. Mark Twain's adventure classics are good. I had loved reading the Great Gatsby (I think the movie did not offer much justice)

My personal fav are Little Women, Heidi and the Wizard of Oz. I am always in awe of Louisa M. Alcott.

OMG........i absolutely love her work..... especially Little Women........thought to write her name too.......but decided to stop....otherwise.........I will keep going.......usually after I read an old classic.......I try to read a current one...to compare........and see.......how the genera.......changing......

Originally posted by: Isabel

Different kids have a different perspective in life..........none of you're wrong........some kids like to be busy.....they don't miss much of being..........so-called kids.......type........I'm aware...many teenagers spend time partying.........playing..VGs......bothering other people.......those are not productive........they've so many potentials.......they're waisting..........

@bold - I was "those kids"....I guess I still am 🤣

My sister cried a lot when she graduated high school because she didn't make the list of Valedictorians (our school has 12) and I literally could not understand why she was so upset because I'm like but...you achieved all this...shouldn't you be proud of it? But for her....it's never enough...I guess she's very ambitious and I lack that. This crooked Valedictorian system was later scrapped and then introduced the Latin Honors System...she still gets sad about it because she would've gotten the highest honor....LOL I wasn't a bad student...I always kept on top of my studies but I never aspired to be "#1"....

Originally posted by: alina.b

Tbh I'm so happy that my parents are so chill...they never pushed us for studies or activities...but it's not the same with my cousin...he's 15 and he's always stressing about academics, debate, volunteering, baseball....he just enrolled in a summer program for high school students and he's trying to get a tutoring job....I think he likes being busy but sometimes I feel like he doesn't get time to just be a kid...he's already worrying about college and taking advanced courses in high school....to be honest, I didn't even think much about college until I turned 17 😆 maybe I'm too laid back in life

I can relate. I was a stresser in school and I had to do every single activity out there. My parents never forced but I guess I liked doing it back then.

That being said the school pressure was a little OTT at times. There was a point in time when my days used to be completely engaged in school activities🤢

Originally posted by: Bucky

I can relate. I was a stresser in school and I had to do every single activity out there. My parents never forced but I guess I liked doing it back them.

That being said the school pressure was a little OTT at times. There was a point in time when my days used to be completely engaged in school activities🤢

Yeah...honestly the school system in India seems so draining...I've seen my cousins and how stressed out they are from primary school with academics and other activities...they are busy all the time...and then it gets worse as they get older

Originally posted by: MishtiNew

No no. I was here only. Replying to some messages😆

Okay....have a good sleep..........you need rest..working hard.........

Originally posted by: Isabel

OMG........i absolutely love her work..... especially Little Women........thought to write her name too.......but decided to stop....otherwise.........I will keep going.......usually after I read an old classic.......I try to read a current one...to compare........and see.......how the genera.......changing......

Me too!❤️ I think hers was the first classic I had picked up as a kid (it was a kid version that I had read ) and was blown away by it.

To me Louisa M.Alcott takes the step a little higher than Jane Austen when it comes to portrayal of female emotions or characters in general.

Originally posted by: alina.b

I'm Indian...I like spicy 😉 .....but not too spicy because then I feel like I'm going to die 🤣

Sorry...didn't mean....any ethnicity..........I'm answering people here...so might not be expressing correctly.......sorry...again.......solely meant...........you're dramatic........& you're an American of Indian origin......that's what my perception ...........