Well, as a teenager anything bad that happens to us is the literal ending of the world. An old man is dying; he’s ninety and he has seen everything he wanted to see in his life, his world is ending and he accepts it. But a teenager’s world ends almost daily. Bad hair days, getting into fights, someone you don’t like breathing in your direction, it’s all cataclysmic from here. Colin has taught us something, after his world has ended so many times something beautiful comes from it. He has taken something from each Katherine, a love for something new. He learns something new from each Katherine, a new appreciation for something. More importantly he learns to rebuild his world, after each Katherine becomes his whole world and then breaks up with him, his whole world crumbles. I’m not here to preach about how perfect Colin is, he is riddled with social anxiety and is ridiculously smart, and he only seems to remember things that are deeply uninteresting to normal …show more content…
Colin Singleton made an adventure out of running from his problems and it in turn helped him solve his problems. We need to learn to live our lives for us, not a Katherine or a Colin, but for ourselves. Our world might consist of a lot of things but we need to live our spontaneous road trip of a life for the driver. So, I guess that’s what Colin taught me and what we should’ve taken from the book; our lives are going to get pretty bad sometimes and when they do, because they will, we need to learn that falling down isn’t the end of the world for