I've had an ebook copy of this since 2010, but I was able to read this through a borrowed hard copy from one of my students just last year, 2013. I was randomly asking them about good reads and she recommended this, and even lent it to me the next day. So I gladly obliged. After all, it's not everyday that I get to read actual books that are sold at a price I can't afford.
When I got home that day, I was excited to read it. After dinner, I plopped on the bed and began to read.
And I regretted reading it during nighttime.
It was about a story of a girl who committed suicide and enumerated thirteen (13) reasons why she did it and recorded them on seven (7) cassette tapes. She was already dead when the tapes started circulating, and if one of them didn't pass it on, something bad would happen.
The book would really dampen your mood, but you just can't stop reading it. Because in a way, at some point, we were a part of someone's sorrow too. We caused pain to someone out there. Deep or superficial, still, it's painful for them. We may have did it intentionally or not, but the bottomline is, we hurt someone.
The setting of the whole book was all through one night, when the tapes landed on her love interest's front door. (or was passed on to him, I don't remember exactly)
So like the story, which happened during the night, I read it for two nights.
Later on in the book, the reasons she cited were not why she committed suicide; those were the reasons behind her desire to be free.
The book was about doing things while we still have the chance. and to say things while we have all the time and opportunity to do so. If we'd let passivity get the best of us, all the things we want to say and do would remain thoughts hidden at the back of our heads. They would remain as thoughts, when they should've been transformed into actions and experiences.
So get up and do the things you ought to, and say the things the people around you need to hear.
Be the person God designed you to be.
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