Entry #2 Inside Out & Anxiety

This past weekend my family and I went to and saw Inside Out 2 though I enjoyed the movie I wasn't prepared for the deep but very necessary message in the movie. Anxiety. I went in not expecting much from the movie but I left with a new perception. 

For those unfamiliar Inside Out 2 is about a girl named Riley who just hit puberty throughout the movie we can see into her mind and see her emotions. Now that she has hit a new stage in her life she receives new emotions one of them being anxiety. Since I don't wanna spoil the movie for you I won't give away specific details but in the movie, Riley experiences an anxiety attack because the emotion "Anxiety" was too much for her to handle and has taken over her life. This surprised me first because I didn't expect such a deep yet real topic to be depicted in a children's movie let alone a Pixar movie and secondly, it opened my eyes to how it's this is something that should have probably been around a long time ago. Everyone experiences anxiety and it's a real issue that people struggle with that most don't know how to handle. I think it is great that Pixar is trying to help by bringing awareness to it earlier so kids know what they are experiencing and make it seem less scary.

I personally experience anxiety and I wonder if maybe I had a movie like this would I have been better equipped and could get a better sense of my feelings. How do you think this would have made you feel as a kid?

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Entry #1 Reading is Fun!

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 Hello everyone! My name is Keon and I will introduce myself to you using one of my favorite hobbies (reading). Reading can often be seen as just a boring task or something required by a class but that's not the type of reading I'm talking about! Fun reading is what I like to call it. Have you ever read for fun? When I'm feeling stressed or even when I'm bored I love to pick up a book and get lost in a different world. 

The '"fun" thing about reading is all the different genres, I love to read YA and Fantasy books notably Twilight. When I read fantasy books I easily get lost in whatever world I am reading about especially with how descriptive the books are it makes the story much more realistic. Fantasy may not be for everyone but there is something out there for everyone like horror, mystery & thriller, memoirs (another favorite), and even mangas.

The first time I fell in love with reading was in 6th grade when we were assigned "Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief" for English of course initially I thought that it was just another boring reading we had to do but I ended up loving the book I loved it so much I got the rest of the series which I equally loved and even though it's considered a middle school book it's still in my top 10 reads.  

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What is your favorite genre and do you have any books you love or a fun connection/story about reading?