#foronceandforall

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Once and for All

“In a perfect wedding- or world- you wanted the best possible beginning. Start in a high note and, no matter what song follows, chances are just better that it will be music to your ears.”

I randomly found this book in my local library and I was looking for an easy breezy book to read to get out of my recent book funk.

I am so glad I did get this book, I did the audio book version of this since again I do have a small child and a long commute and so audio books are my go to recently. 

This book is about a girl  named louna who is almost 18 and is about to graduate high school and start college. she works with her mom and her god father William who are popular wedding planners. 

Louna is cynical since she lost the love of he life due to a school shooting. She then meets Ambrose who is the brother of the bride that her mother is planning her wedding for. This wedding is very important and is the highlight of the wedding season. Ambrose’s sister pays Louna’s mom a tidy sum for her to employ her brother to keep him out of her hair. 

The books goes back and fourth in time between her first epic love of her life Ethan and to the present. I felt bad for Louna who thought she only deserved one epic love and would compare everything to her relationship to Ethan. This book got me pretty invested and I enjoyed this light and fluffy novel. 

I would give this 4/out of 5 stars

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The worst type of people are the ones that make you feel worthless for being happy. I don’t think its wrong to choose happiness and move on from a life full of insecurities, unhappiness, and anxiety. Thats not the life I wanted and I couldn’t imagine being happier then I am right now for leaving it. Making up things to make yourself feel better, to have validation from people you don’t know, is just a new form of low. At the end of the day there are a lot of great people in the world, there are people who will always make you laugh, make you challenge yourself, and make you feel empowered and loved. Choose those people. If from the very beginning of meeting someone they want nothing to do with you, and don’t put any effort in, I can’t stress enough, WALK THE OTHER WAY. They aren’t worth being in your life. You can only try to be civil and reaction-less for so long until you realize that people are going to react the way they want to when they’re hurt, and you can’t do anything but stay on the right path, be true to yourself, and show everyone else around you that, it doesn’t and will never phase you ever again. After one full year of feeling messed up, I finally see that there are better ways to spend my time and my tears, and now I actually understand what pain feels like, and that without pain we cannot understand the beauty of healing. I cannot express how good it is to say goodbye to the biggest blockade I have ever faced. My future is happy, bright, and the best thing I could ever imagine. I’ve realized that without the bad, we cannot understand the good and at the end of the day there’s way more to happiness than what the eye can see