"More than a stunning debut. It is the announcement of a bold new literary voice"
—Stephen Chbosky, author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Hi, I hope you are doing well up there. I’m not doing that well right now. But I’m trying really hard to be okay, to continue staying strong everyday. It’s just that, my life is really hard now. I’m feeling so stressed up lately. I think I’m bad at dealing with stress. Hopefully, writing this letter to you will ease my stress a little bit. School is getting harder every single day. I don’t know how I’m surviving at school. I feel like the things that I do are always wrong(?) I thought the things I do are correct, but I was totally wrong. I broke down 3 times this week, grandpa. I keep telling myself, oh it’s going to be a better day tomorrow, but it’s not. Not yet I guess. I feel shitty sometimes when I’m at school. Some teachers didn’t acknowledge my effort and told me that I didn’t put any effort in school. How can they say that when they did see how hard I work to maintain my A? It’s hurts a lot when people say you don’t put effort when you spend a lot of time studying, revising, when actually, I put in all my best with my sweat, blood and tears to just get an A in my report card. Life’s so hard, grandpa. Sometimes I wish I could just escape and run to a far away land. To escape my problems and feeling free. I feel like I’m sacrificing my emotions, feelings in order to get good grades. I feel like I have no choice, either I sacrifice my grades to have emotions or sacrifice my feelings to get good
grades. Anyway, that’s all about my life, for now. If something exciting is happening, I’ll tell you okay. Oh yeah, our family is doing okay. Well we all look okay, but who knows what are they all thinking quietly inside their brain? Okay, okay I’ll think positive okay? I’ll try to think positive for now. I love you grandpa.