Flowers for Algernon

When I was in High School, during the worst years of my life, I began to form a terrible distaste for reading. My teacher was awful as an educator and as a person. I refused to read the books we were discussing in class because I knew I would resent them and dislike them regardless of their quality.

Flowers of Algernon was one of the books that was in our list of recommended books to read in our final year. I read the blurb and knew just how much I would love it. Even when all of my love for reading was almost entirely extinguished, I knew this would be a book that I will enjoy. So I didn't read it.

I read it today on the 12th of April, 2021. Since the day I first refused to read Flowers for Algernon, I grew and changed; I am not the same person anymore. Yet, past me was correct in every way. I loved every second of this book. I only wish I had the chance to read it those many years ago.