13 Reasons Why
13 Reasons Why is the American teen drama developed by Netflix by Brian Yorkey, based on the 2007 novel Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher. Basically, it starts with the story of a girl, Hannah Baker, who commits suicide getting enough of life, enough of the people, and enough of everything. So this series goes with the flow of why she does so and what things happen in a row. Makers have tried to show the story of both sides in every aspect. This goes with the reasons of her side where 13 indicates 13 peoples who knowingly/unknowingly influenced her with life. And it gets convincing if the thing is viewed through 13 different aspects for a single object to be influenced.
13 Life Lessons
With the on-screen content, there is off-screen content that writers want us to perceive. So with my understanding and interpretation, I have tried to list the reasons which I liked about it.
- It has tried to show the different aspects of the story with valid reasons from every side, valid in the sense that you would have done the same as that character in life. Of course, there will be different consequences if you are on a different verse from that character but not with the same verse of the same character.
- It has tried to convince us how sufferings lead to the end of everything. How lonely, sad, and miserable people become, yet we don't see it with our bare eyes. How much negative energy would generate to kill yourself, caring for nothing at all after that?
- It interprets how people do not care as they look like they do. Some do while some don't, so it's up to us to choose which one.
- It has explained everything happens for a reason rather than for a reason. The question is what would you have done to sound different?
- How seriously you would have taken relations as a friend, lover, or family? Do you keep checking what really others want from you and from life or you just selfishly concerned about yourself only?
- There will be hard times in life. You should know when to look up to what and whom.
- Everything counts and adds even it's little either it's positive or negative like it's mentioned somewhere in The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho "When you want something, this whole universe conspires you to achieve that".
- Lots of things happen at teenage, they go through lots of things like fun to bully, humiliation to harassment. So must be checking for their well-being by the concerned ones like school, family, and home.
- We should be nurturing, shaping, and preparing our teens for the way they should be. They will be facing a lot of life at a small age. How they get affected and how they take things. They should not take anything with the negative part of it which will be harming them.
- Even the negative characters are somehow influenced because of some reasons. Somehow they are driven by the atmosphere around them. Why dominating ones are always dominating and suffering ones are always suffering? Because they are bounded to do so knowingly or unknowingly.
- Once you lose someone and something in life, it's not recoverable and replaceable. So we should be concerned about others as well while living on our own terms.
- Lessons act as remnant things after life leaves, so hold them while you can, who knows "Kal ho na hoo"?
- It's entertaining and interesting with the all story and reasons of everyone for a single thing. It will make you more aware of other's feelings and well-being.
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