Fat kid rules the world by K. L. Going was the book I read this week. Imagine living a normal happy childhood life, when suddenly you lose one of your most prized possessions, your mother. After that things just get worse from there and now your 17 years old, almost 300 pounds living a sweaty, unhappy insecure life. But what if when you're about to throw out your entire life on a subway track comes along a simple nobody person, who turns out to be the best thing that can ever happen to you, and make you realize there's more to life than it already seems.
This book turns out to be very realistic, because there are many people out in the world and in high schools that are overweight and get picked at, on a daily basis. Laughing at someone because they are overweight or just breath a little deeper than you is not something to ridicule about. In fact it's a form of bullying, and if it continues the bullied kid, might end up committing suicide, like Troy almost did in the story. Most bullied kids, won't have someone to save you either.
"What goes around comes around", is one of the wisdom teachings I picked up from reading this book, because all the people that ever made fun of, laughed at, or picked at Troy will get a punishment sent right back at them. It's just the circle of life. From my short 17 years in this world, I have learned that what you put out in the world comes right back at you. I never realized that before until my teacher mentioned it and it's true. As I finished reading my book I thought about all the mean things I have done in life, and it did all came back to me one way or another. I realized I didn't want to be that kind of person, so every time someones gets picked at or I want to do something mean to someone I think twice about it and put myself in their shoes.
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