Personal Narrative: Love You Forever

From a very young age, I barely had any book time. I would occasionally ask for mama to read to me but she always looked down, frowned and said “not tonight.” All the other kids got their parents to read to them. It was no fair. I didn’t like reading, the sound of one of parent’s tired voice after dealing with their crap talking boss made me feel so comforted. My father, with his smooth baritone, reading Love You Forever as I slowly drifted into sleep, until the book inevitably ended and jolted me back awake. I would lie there, staring at the ceiling, counting to 100, counting my breaths, but it never helped. Many hours passed by until I eventually fell into a relaxing slumber.

My mother, as much as she loved reading for herself and to others,

Now I like really like to read, I only wish I had more time. What caused me to actually like reading was a strange journey that all started with Ali trying to be a pickup artist. Now this part you may not like to read, but you will and I hope you enjoy it. But what Ali started changed my entire way of thinking. I had been taught to be a kind gentleman and always put others before myself. Until one fateful day Ali told me about kino, not kimo for cancer treatment, but kino escalation. You don’t want to know what that means itself but what was important was that in one of the comments of an article about kino, was a link to another subreddit. And in this subreddit a suggested book to read on the list of suggested books was No More Mr. Nice Guy. At the time I was feeling depressed in a strange way. I would get dopamine rushes of talking to people but if I sensed that they didn’t really like talking to me then I would crash emotionally and hate myself. No More Mr. Nice Guy taught me how to be confident and not care about what other people thought of me. Before reading I thought that the only way for people to like me was to courteous because that’s what my parents needed from me at home. Now after reading it I feel so much happier, I no longer get a pain in my stomach whenever I look at instagram and see other people hanging out and being friends without