The Road Trip of a lifetime

    In the book How to be Bad by Lauren Myracle, Sarah Mylnowski, and E. Lockhart one character, Vicks learns how to open up and except her feelings. In the beginning she seems all bottled up and thinks it's bad and weird to show how a person feels. She thinks that people who show how they feel are needy. At the end of the story she learns that its okay to tell someone how you honestly feel about them or about something. Vicks is a person who is very protective of her feelings.
    Vicks has a boyfriend who is at college and suddenly stops contacting her. She gets a text once in awhile but thats it. Vicks says that she doesn't care but deep down she really does. When she says "I know she's sad that I didn't tell her right off about what's been going on with Brady since he left for the U." I think that Vicks doesn't want to be judged by the way she is feeling. With everything going on she thinks that if she asked for help then she would sound needy. And she would hate that. It's so personal to her she can't even tell her own best friend. At the end of the book she says "Yeah, but what I mean is, why didn't you call me at all, ever, since you left home?" In this scene Vicks finally opens up to Brady, her boyfriend. It seems that she feels relieved that she is getting all of this out. She learned during the road trip that its okay to except your feelings. Every person has feelings and it's okay to show them once in awhile.
  Vicks has a problem representing her feelings but at the end she leads that she can trust others with her feelings. This change teaches me about life because I think it teaches a person that it's fine to have feelings.That it's okay to show a persons feelings. But it also teaches me that a person doesn't need to know everything that is going on in their life. That a person shouldn't push them to tell them what's going on.