firegirl...

I just read the book by Tony Abbott entitled Firegirl and my question is, are you ever really the same person once somebody touches your heart?

I have been drawn to reading kids and young adult books these days where there is magic and adventure. Once I read through romance novels like they were going out of style, I had to read them one after another, I wanted and needed romance in my life.. but of course the sleeping princess always wakes up and here I am.. I know that these romance novels hold nothing true.. there is no rich, good looking, arrogant, sweet, sensitive guy that sweeps you off your feet.. blah! none of the regulars have all those characteristics... anyway i'm straying away from my topic...

each and everyone of us has had someone touch their heart in one way or another... my question is were you a willing participant or just a bystander? the book is about a regular middle school boy faced with a challenge to step up and be different... to reach out and be nice to a girl who has been burned beyond recognition... the boy teaches us that sometimes or most of the time we are presented with scary stuff we don't want to deal with and most of the time these scary stuff are what molds us and shapes us as a person... being a grownup we are faced with scary things to deal with all the time... from dating to changing jobs to taxes to decisions that could alter our lives forever, but it is in the dealing with this scary stuff that we learn that things aren't as scary as they are projected to be.. our mind plays tricks on us... we have to step out of this box we have created and live life to the fullest... the boy in the story will never be the same... neither will I...