Great Expectation Thoughts

          For me, a book is only good when it is relatable, Great Expectations (though it had the tendency to get boring and slow) was relatable and thus a good read. I know what it feels like to think how much better my life would be if I had money, if I had expensive clothes instead of "common" clothes, if I got to live in a big, amazing city, if I had a gorgeous boyfriend. I also am aware of the fact that even if I got all of these things my core wouldn't change and I would become unhappier because I would have nothing to blame for my unfullfilled feeling. Through this novel Pip realizes this same as well. A main theme brought out into this book is that money, looks, and intellect don't bring happiness, and that expectations are basically you wanting life to do the work for you. Life isn't going to magically disolve your problems, if it did all old people would be happy! Pip gets rich and yet he still feels the same as he did when he was little: wanting. His core emotions are deeply enrooted in his soul, he had anger that he wasn't good enough, anger that he got what he wanted an nothing changed, anger that Estella would never be his. I can relate this to my own life.

              Another theme that was easily relatable to my life was theme of happiness comes best when your being yourself. In my own life I often feel like I don't act like who I truly am or that I don't even know who I am. Pip seemed to feel like a boat in the middle of an ocean, floating aimlessly with the wrong goal in mind, he wanted to get better for Estella, he wanted to change for all the wrong reasons; not for himself but for others. He cared to much what others thought of him, he persistingly tried to be something he wasn't and cringed at the things he was.  This was the most relatable for me because I often feel like I have no direction, I feel like I try hard at a lot of the wrong things and that I am not my own person. In truth, what I got of Great Expectations was a journey of someone unguided to find who they were and what they truly wanted under the surface.