Five Feet Apart

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Reading teaches us things about the world in which we live, that we perhaps have never thought about before. I decided for my bf and knew he probably wouldn’t live all too long (he’s my ex-bf now and still alive and well! Because your life is so much more than treatments and hospitals and life expectancies no matter your chronic health condition. Being subjected to mental and emotional pain could also be definition of a type of masochism which I’m doing right now by reading this book and crying like newborn baby. Finally let me recommend a book that two years ago made me think of Scott (even though it's not CF related).

While masks play a role in Five Feet Apart they sure do seem to be conveniently left behind a good 80% of the time. Five Feet Apart” is a book about two people that have CF and fall in love with each other, and this even though they both know that they can never have a normal relationship. Pensé que el saber que una historia entre dos chicos, dos pacientes terminales, iba a acabar mal me iba a salvar de la avalancha de sentimientos del final. I don't want to give this a rating after not even having read 100 pages but I'm almost 100% sure this would've been a 1 star read. Even a nurse doing it to another patient or a parent or friend asking if they can help could have happened.

Y qué decir de Stella cuando por fin se da cuenta de que la vida es algo más que seguir un cronograma de medicinas y terapias y que, a pesar de todo, puede permitirse sentir, temer, llorar, amar.

Except, of course, at the ending of the book, but I really can’t blame Stella and Will for their actions.It also gives us an interest in them, because now we have a connection to it, through the characters. Stella can't stand to see anyone throwing away their shot at survival, no matter how limited time must be. Poco a poco, Stella y Will irán entablando una peligrosa e inevitable amistad, pues a pesar de tener que estar separados siempre por dos metros, a veces hay que robarle momentos a una vida que, inevitablemente, se va haciendo cada vez más corta.