Difficult Choices

                                     Difficult Choices

If I Stay, by Gayle Forman, is the story of a girl that is just a little bit different than the rest of her family. She plays the cello and loves to listen to classical music, on the other hand her family loves rock and playing loud songs. Mia, our main character, is in love with Adam, a popular guy and actually cool, at first she thinks that when he comes to de auditory to hear her play, he is only playing with her, but after a Yoyo Ma concert and a really awkward moment ( then a kiss) Adam becomes her boyfriend. Although all Mia's family (and boyfriend) have many differences, at the end they love each other very much and make un forgettable  memories. On a normal day, when school was cancelled because of the snow, all the family decides to go to do some fun activities, (remember that with the snow the road is slippery). After making the same discussion for what music to play, and classical wins, Mia falls asleep, when she wakes up, an accident has happened, her mother and father die, and her brother is lost.


"- it looked almost human to me. It looked like if you played it, it would tell you secrets."
I started playing cello when I was in fifth grade, it was one of the things many people said it was for my best friend, so I could spend more time with her. Partially it was, I loved spending a lot of time with her, it was like she understood me, and that with only one look we knew what each other thought. After a year or two, we were no longer best friends, but only friends, that look had disappeared. At first I thought that being in so many things together would affect me, but then I understood that all those decisions were for me too, I started to play the cello because of the sound it made, it made many harmonies and it only had four chords. When I played it, it was like I just had added another extremity, and that I knew how to make it function, just as my hands, my legs, my head. Also didn't had to sing to make music, I was making music with my hands in charge, and I like it when I have things under control.


"I had never known that I could make someone feel this way"
Personally, never in my life I have worried too much about making everyone like me, because adapting to a society where anything you do or are is un-accepted would be wrong. Nevertheless, I have liked many boys, but actually never did anything about it. One of my thoughts  has always been if I could make someone feel like I have felt, in the clouds where nothing matters. But 'till today the necessity of being with someone and having to adapt to what a BOY thinks has not attracted mi mind, and I have many other things to worry about, like school and sports and music. I will have more time to think about boys, anyway in middle school boyfriends never last more than a movie.


Perhaps this book is about how hard is making choices in a society where anything outside the normal is bad and where even the country of the brave (USA) is in fear of the un-known and the different, where they urge you to think out-side the box and to make different opinions, but when you do it is just W-R-O-N-G!