Being a teenager is hard, harder than most adults would think because they probably forgot all about that period of their life. We have to deal with an awful lot of difficult things like getting good grades to get into a good college and not disappointing our parents, we are always self conscious about the way we look and how we are dressed , we have to take care of our skin so we look youthful and fresh and worst of all, we always try to impress our crush. If only there was a book that would help us out with all these struggles, an ultimate guide to being a teenager. Although I haven’t come across a book like that, the closest book to helping me survive as a teenager is a book called “How to be a bawse” by Lilly Singh. Not a boss (BOSS), but a bawse (BAWSE). The word “bawse” is not a word that you hear everyday. In fact you aren’t going to find it in the dictionary or on google translate. It’s a new word, a …show more content…
Before reading this book, I had no motivation, I didn’t think I could fulfil my dreams at this age. I wanted to learn to be more confident, work harder and learn from my past mistakes and I learnt just that, however, there were times when I was reading the book I felt that my life was very disorganised and there was no hope, at the start of the book Lilly reminds the readers to not be discouraged as this is a chance to grow and learn. I realised that if you want something you have to work hard for it. This book doesn’t contain fluffy, inspirational tumblr quotes or hopeful thoughts to make you feel good about yourself. A quote that stuck with me after reading this book was “There's no escalators - there's only staircases to success. There is no substitute for hard work”. I like this quote because it’s like a reminder to me when I am demotivated and I don’t feel like working, it pushes me to keep going when I think something is too hard and I don’t even want to