The Fault in Our Stars..

Someone recommended John Green's 'The Fault in Our Stars' to me a while ago. Today, I finally got around to reading it. Initially I was put off. Who wants to read a story about a 16 year-old suffering from cancer? But from the moment Hazel Grace Lancaster met Augustus Waters, I was hooked. It is a book that plucked at my heart strings. I could feel what Hazel felt. John Green, like so many other authors, has been gifted with the ability to make the words come alive. The world in which they live seems more real than the one I do. Sure, it is tragic. And it doesn't end with them riding off into the sunset. But it shows the reality of cancer. What it does to you. How it changes you. How it changes the people around you. And most of all, it shows the innate desire that exists in all of us, to leave a mark on the world. To make some impression to show that you were there and are never forgotten. 

The title, was inspired by a quote from Julius Caeser. He means to say that it wasn't their fault that they had cancer. It was written in their fate, in the stars. But despite that, they lived. They fell in love. They took a shot at forever. And that's the thing, there's no point living in regret. Life is already too short. So do it. Do what your heart tells you, because one day it might be too late.