Taking the wrong steps

I'm that kind of girl who believes in signs. I believe in changing faith and the cause of that. It first starts with choices then the result of that and from the result comes a change in faith. It is not unpacked till the end. Still, clues let me know what way faith was going for Naomi in Memoirs of a teenage amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin. Naomi whole life changes when she accidentally hits her head on the steps and wakes up with amnesiac. Amnesiac is when memory is lost, which applies to Naomi.

If I had not listened to the girl who complemented this book or picked it out of Mrs. Robbins library or even the greater part, read it, I would have never written this reading response. Even though I have no idea how this book might change me and my faith I know it will, somehow. I might not notice it. But it will. It might just stay with me through my life and when the time comes it will come out.

If Naomi would have picked tails and not gone for the camera she would not had to think hard of who is her boyfriend and think hard of her mother. She would not have to feel pain again when finding out that her mom had an affair and had another child. I feel as if this change was for her and her mother to reunite. It was another chance to make things right with her mother. Naomi gets closer every time to her mother. She’s accepting her mother’s gifts, needing to talk to her and even talking to her half sister. Everything goes in small baby steps that if you don’t look hard enough it might go pass your eyes.

Feelings have also changed for Naomi. She feels as though her boyfriend is not her type and it seems that she might not fall for him again. She does not pick up that her best friend likes her more than a friend, which she might not have either before the accident. Her feelings might change towards her best friends. I would not be surprised, when they are a couple towards the end of the book. Like faith feelings also change. When feelings change faith changes. When faith changes feelings change. But there are people who don’t do anything when one of the two changes and decide to live in misery.

People feelings change through life. We know nobody is perfect. There are people who fall in and out of love and breakups happen or even affairs. Faith changes, a good thing leads to a good thing but sometimes leads to a bad thing. A bad thing always goes to the wrong direction, to the wrong faith that you never wanted. Just a simple going to the store at night can lead to the change in faith. The first minute you’re with your chips at hand the next you’re crying because you got raped. Just the simplest things could change not just faith but you as a person and a whole.

And though I never wanted to change my faith, my faith is a new one from the faith I had 2 years ago. Just the simplest goodness and pleasure can bring faith to go to the wrong stairs. They lead to hell instead of a pleasant heaven. Faith changes you, your surroundings and you’re beloved. We can’t be hard on ourselves for what happened in 9/11 or that day we failed a test. Cause a wrong thing was made by you but you just have to grab on tight and climb the right stairs with me.