Fiction can make your heart feel deeply and experience lives that exist only in the imagination, but it pales in comparison to a story that has truly been lived.
“Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl”
How does one find small moments of joy when surrounded by darkness and despair? How does one summon the courage to face challenges while still searching for the beauty that remains? While others trembled and complained, she chose to see the good that still existed. While the world expected her to give up, she continued to hope, even though she knew the end was near.
Anne Frank, a German Jewish girl and victim of the Holocaust, is known for keeping a diary that captured her experiences in hiding. For two years, she and her family lived in secrecy to escape Nazi persecution. Though Anne’s life was tragically cut short, her words continue to resonate across generations. Her diary is more than a historical account -it is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit, the power of hope, and the beauty of a soul that refused to be dimmed by darkness.
This book made me realize how precious things that I have are and how often I take them for granted, how blinded I can be when searching for more, longing for better, feeling not enough. It reminds me that even if things are not always going my way, I still have something to return to. I cried as I read the lines “there, Anne’s diary ends.” She died. They all died.
I could go on for hours talking about the deep morals this girl had in her diary, and the experience of reading it can be very diverse as it has a lot to teach - war, injustice, adolescence, isolation, loneliness, politics, spiritual struggles, personal growth. This is everything.
