Do you know the difference between fiction and reality? In reality there is no knight in shining armour biding his time just waiting to save you. No one notices when you are at your lowest. No one has the time to care. Everyone is too busy living in their self-absorbed lives to notice what anybody else is going through. The main difference between fiction and reality is that reality sucks…
In the stories, someone always notices, it could be your best friend, your lover, your associate, your acquaintance or even your enemy. It doesn't matter. There is someone there watching your silent plea for help and worrying about you. Someone is there to help you get through it. Someone picks up the pieces of your life and gently sticks every single piece back together. Someone will help you to heal. That someone doesn't exist in reality. No one that selfless survives very long in reality. Life changes people. You learn to do as little as possible so you have time to do everything you planned. Helping people tends to take time and often they end up making you change plans. In reality helping people becomes disadvantageous to your personal success. In reality if you need help you have to ask. In reality people pretend that this is just temporary, 'just a phase you will grow out of.' In reality no one actually listens.
There are a lot of reasons why fictional stories were created; most people believe they are just a form of entertainment. Not me. I believe differently; I believe that they are the way people pass on messages to others about our mistakes and out triumphs. They created to show us how life should go if we lived in an ideal world. They are actually our salvation. Through them we are taught many things about life. Not only how we should live ours. How we should act. How we should choose friends. Even, how we should adapt to any unfortunate situations that we find ourselves in. Through fiction we are taught more about this world than any other person in our lives teaches us. Fiction is patient. Fiction is kind. Fiction is selfless.
Through stories we learn lessons. We choose either to adapt to the beliefs of the characters or to learn from their mistakes and not copy their ways. Through stories we not only get away from our problems, we learn to cope with other problems.
I am Hermione Granger and this is my story.
Many people believe that to turn out as I have you must have been abused in your early childhood or had some other major traumatic events in your life. I break this pattern, as so many other people do. We just go unnoticed. We go unheard. Our story doesn't break the headlines. Our story comes from the pressures placed on young people. Everyone is to blame their parents, their peers, their friends and their society. Society isn't ready for us to speak out. Society doesn't want to deal with its own problem. Society cannot handle a problem this big; it's a larger problem than people think. We are the way we are because of society, yet individuals look down upon us and offer us their pity nothing more and nothing less. Pity doesn't fix the fact that they pushed us too far, it doesn't help us heal. If anything it just pushes us away.
I am not perfect. I try my best but apparently that wasn't enough. I am Hermione and this is my story.