Life is What You Make it

Exploring life through teenage until she comes out of the vortex is what Preeti Shenoy’s book is all about. It’s a teenage story most of the Indian society including parents and students can relate to. Taking care of the cliché, the author puts into certain nuances which highlights the story. Starting from an era dated back to when there were no phones, the excitement to reach a phone and talk to a friend indeed revives memories of certain times.

Moving on was difficult but if the central character was given a choice, she would ‘shrug’ it off. The fear of getting caught, the mission, excitement, the love, the death etc. is what defines the book till she feels that something has changed in her. From her culmination, she decelerated to suicide, not once or twice but beyond that. Maybe, the shrug had a deeper effect when she wasn’t ready to sort it out with herself. She didn’t realise that every time she left it alone, it created a bigger hole which was scary and amusing to others.

Her horrid behaviour, realization that her mind had put forward, changes and her unresolved trauma took her to a point where she decided to end her life! As days passed, the once exhilarated and enthuastic girl became an isolated specie which no one would even recognise. Exhausted physically and mentally, her concerned parents took her to different psychiatrists. Different doctors and higher doses made her weak until she stumbled upon an angel. Realising her mistakes and resolving her trauma through various ways, she indeed shows light and even becomes one as she rises like a phoenix whose process is not as the former. Yet, this book grabs vivid nuances to potray her life along with her parents’ life which took a little more time than hers. Breaking the constraints and making us realise us that this too is normal, she emerges as one of the best writers as she escapes from the constraints of different mindsets forced on her. It takes us more than a muscle to hold back our repression, fear, negativity and depression and our memories as we read, reflect and empathise with the young girl. A compelling and fresh book which should be on every must-read for parents, children who have undergone mental trauma and the ones who are overcoming it.

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