Not My Problem

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I love Kelly Quindlen’s She Drives Me Crazy and I haven’t read it yet but I am very much looking forward to Dahlia Adler’s Cool for the Summer.

At work, this can look like your day-to-day tasks and typical job responsibilities. But your responsibilities will extend beyond your job responsibilities. As a team member, you are responsible for supporting your team, helping your management, and ensuring that the initiatives that you are working on is successful. To be a successful individual, you have to be part of a successful group. This is often forgotten. Don’t get me wrong… I don’t think you can assist everyone that needs help every single time And even the pushing-down-the-stairs-thing, I was really excited for (I'm mean, I know), turned out pretty tame, but I liked it that way. Also, the girl who gets pushed becomes the love interest lauter on, which is so fun. Blaming others? “It’s not your problem” because you did not cause it. Blame is a dangerous game. It loses a company’s time and money, and jeopardizes working relationships. Sometimes it’s the people who shift the blame to others that are responsible for the problem in the first place. Since they are unwilling to take responsibility and help to clean up the mess blaming might be a huge route to why you believe that “it’s not your problem”. i also liked the portrayal of toxic friendships in this one and the "life lesson" that there are people out there who will treat you with love and respect and that you don't have to put up with someone who is mean to you while pretending to care about you. In this book Aideen struggles with a difficult home situation, she has grown up poor which is largely caused by her mother’s alcohol problem. The duality of her feelings is portrayed excellent, you can see her love for her mother, but also the resentment towards her, because of the drinking and the problems it causes every time her mother relapses. Because of her home situation she doesn’t have many friends and she has a pretty isolated life.

9. Find Common Ground

Aideen: I rooted for Aideen all the way through. I rooted for her to find her own voice. For her to finally trust someone. For her to let someone into her life. For her to stand up for herself and chose to make herself happy for once. Her arc throughout this story was inspirational, heartwarming and amazing.

Here are a few new ways to delegate responsibility while maintaining a strong relationship and building trust between people. Characters: The characters are a major success and the more reasons for you to love this book. Aideen is entertaining, compassionate and overall just loveable. Her character is raw and I teared up for the emotional authenticity that runs throughout the novel. I don't think I am similar to Aideen (I'm more assertive) but I find her personality to be very relatable. I don’t want to get involved” is a simple phrase that shows you are not interested in someone else’s fight.

This phrase shows good leadership skills. It’s also very polite, as it shows you will not interfere with other people’s problems. It is no secret that I love The Falling in Love Montage. I’d go as far to say that it’s my favourite book of all time. This is not just because of the book itself, but the impact it had on me. I read it at the absolute perfect time; I had been struggling with realising I was a lesbian and accepting this label for myself. Seeing Saoirse and Ruby as these lesbians who were confident and comfortable in their identity really helped me begin the journey towards being as comfortable with my own sexuality. That’s all to say, I don’t think I can compare Smyth’s novels fairly. Because the impact TFILM had on me and the personal meaning it took on is inseparable from my opinion of it and Not My Problem simply didn’t have this same impact. This is not a bad thing, or a point against it – not every book is going to change your life. Although I have no doubt that NMP will mean just as much to other readers as TFILM does to me. I love both of these novels for different reasons and I’m sure I’ll love anything else Ciara Smyth writes for its own unique reason too. Too busy? You can’t foresee there being time to help with other people‘s concerns or issues. You may have so much on your plate from your normal day that adding anything extra is impossible. You feel that it’s not your problem because you feel underappreciated or taken advantage of by your peers? This is common if you often help others but don’t ask for help in return. It can be painful to be always giving and never receiving. Also, Ms Devlin!! Her dry humour and the way she interacted with Aideen was really wholesome to me. She really reminded me of Sister Michael from Derry Girls, except maybe slightly younger and also not a nun? Either way, one of my fave YA teachers. This book was a rude-awakening for me, very much cementing the fact that YA rarely seems to be something I enjoy (or...maybe the book was shit? Both things?).