"What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person."

- Quote from John Green's Paper Towns.

I think we all tend to idealize or have preconceptions of others. That's something John Green made me realize. It's never correct. Who you are is never really the same person others believe you are. There are many different sides to people, and to me, the most annoying questions in the world are 'Why are you so different today?', 'What's wrong with you today?'. In each others' eyes, we're all a bunch of incomplete misrepresentations. I wish more people would understand that, rather than assume nonexistent knowledge of other people.
John Green has fascinated me with the ideal of fictional characters becoming real. Where's the line between fiction and reality? How can we ever be certain that what we believe about others is absolutely true, rather than just our own imagination?

Sidenote: I got accepted into the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in the National University of Singapore. I did work hard, to the point that I resent those who don't believe in hard work and putting in effort as an excuse for failure (the kind of person I used to be), to admiring those who do regardless of their results.