When I think about everything that has happened this year, I think of The Catcher in the Rye. My favorite part of the book was the ending. No, I don't mean I was jumping up and down screaming with joy that it was finally over. The last chapter of the book was by far my favorite. For those of you that actually read it or for those that may have used Sparknotes, you may know what I'm talking about. Holden talks about how reminiscing makes him miss the people in his life that he surely didn't miss to begin with. When I started to think about it, I realised it was kind of true. But that doesn't necessarily mean I'm going to jump at the chance to be with people I don't get along with anymore.
(No friendship bracelets were harmed in the making of this blog post)
"D.B. asked me what I thought about all this stuff I just finished telling you about. I didn't know what the hell to say. If you want to know the truth, I don't know what I think about it. I'm sorry I told so many people about it. All I know about it is, I sort of miss everybody I told about. Even old Stradlater and Ackley, for instance. I think I even miss that goddam Maurice. It's funny. Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye#Chapter_26)
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