A recovering ex-Christian.
Zohar and the Frozen Flame.
It rained all night last night.  I fell asleep early and missed it.

I've been thinking how important discussions are.

I read Of Mice and Men back when I was 12, by myself, during SSR period in middle school.  I think, usually people read Of Mice and Men as a class, with study guides and tests on it.  But I read it alone, and by myself.

The words were not that difficult to read, and the story is linear.  The ending was a suprise for me though.  To sum up the story from how I remembered it goes like this; the main character and his autistic friend were buddies, and always together.  Eventually they start working and live in this new area.  The main guy befriends new people at this new place.  The autistic guy gets in trouble for killing this woman, who is important to that new place.  The main character shoots and kills his buddy, the autistic guy, because, in my mind, I thought both of them would be in trouble.

Back then, I thought, wow, betraying your friend like that?  So that's how life works...

So like... 10+ years later, I read the SparkNotes, and it says that the main character kills the autistic guy for a more peaceful death, because he would have been lynched anyway.  Wow, and all this time I thought Mice of Men is renown for it's ending, that it's okay to kill your buddy.  I never considered kiling anyone though, I just thought that that's what Of Mice of Men is about.