"There's a world out there, Tara, and once Dad stops instilling his ideas in your ears, the world looks very different."
Tara Westford, born in 1986, appeared before us with her first book, her newcomer debut, "You Fly Like a Bird to Your Mountain." Once the book was released, it was at the top of the New York Times bestseller list in the first week, and it has accumulated for more than 80 weeks, still ranking at the top of the list, no.1, top 1, which is a miracle.
Another miracle is that Bill Gates went around promoting new books for Tara's platform, saying that he began to reflect on his life as he read Tara's extreme childhood memories. In Bill Gates' view, this should be a book that everyone will love, without exception, and it's even better than you've ever heard of.
Because you can't imagine that this shy and beautiful woman in front of you, Tara, a doctor of history at cambridge university, has never been to school with her siblings before the age of 17 because of her parents' insistence, and lives in a place like a landfill!
And she finally, with the encouragement of an older brother, the third-ranked brother Taylor, who spoke when he left, tried to find a way to leave the family where the father did not allow his children to have a personal will and voice, and the brother Taylor said that you should find a way to leave as soon as possible, otherwise you may not be able to leave in this life, because you will lose the ability to fly.
The voice echoed in Tara's heart, and she knew that if she wanted to live like a person, she would have to try to escape from the mountain. Later, Tara was admitted to Brigham Young University through self-study:
He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 2008 and was subsequently awarded the Gates Cambridge Scholarship.
He received a Master of Philosophy degree from the University of Cambridge in 2009.
In 2010, he received a scholarship to visit Harvard University.
He received his PhD in History from the University of Cambridge in 2014.
In 2018, he published his debut novel", "You Fly Like a Bird to Your Mountain".
In 2019, he was named "Influential Person of the Year" by Time Magazine for the impact of this book.
Yes, it was a miracle, and even Bill Gates couldn't resist recommending the book to others again and again, claiming that it was the most inspirational girl he had ever met.
Tara's resistance and successful counterattack will tell us not to make excuses for our own failure and self-discipline, you see, there are still people who can live like this, and she can still escape the heavens and fight for herself to find a bright future, right?
And my first reaction after starting to read the book was also shock, and all that remained in my heart was the admiration for Tara, and my feeling was that if I were her, I would definitely stay in this terrible original family, completely like a frog cooked in warm water.
What I particularly appreciate is Tara's attitude, after all this, the intellectually elegant Tara will still smile shyly like a young woman of her age, but there is a great energy in her peace and quietness that no one can ignore.
Tara says you can call this new self in many terms: transformation, transformation, hypocrisy, betrayal. And I call it: education.
Tara and the landfill behind him
Tara writes in the book that her mother and father decided to marry, uncle Lynn came to see who the guy who wanted to marry her, only to find that the family talked like they were fighting and shouting, the uncle was extremely disgusted, tried to make his sister Faye change his mind but ultimately failed, the young girl Faye and the young man from the mountain Jean returned to the mountain to get married and started to live.
At first it may be normal, but Tara writes of seeing pictures of her parents getting married, with her father still looking like a carefree young man, her mother looking happy, Tara not knowing when her father started to be different from others, and her father was a tired, worried, worried, and middle-aged man who was at odds with government regulations.
All in all, around the age of thirty, the father began to become uncooperative in everything, and one day took his three eldest sons home from school, and since then the children of the family have stopped attending school, and the four children born later have not gone to the hospital and have not issued birth certificates.
Tara's family has a total of 7 siblings, she is the youngest, the parents are determined not to let their children go to school, claiming that those government-run schools will brainwash people, and the government is likely not aware of the existence of these children, because many children do not have birth certificates at all, they are born at home, and parents cannot even remember the exact birthday of their children.
This is also a parent, it is a crime! Even the grandparents thought that the children should go to school normally and drink milk, all of which were ignored by Tara's parents, and Tara grew up in such a vacuum.
Tara later heard a psychology professor talk about a condition in college: a mental disorder with bipolar disorder, also known as bipolar disorder, and Tara thought that maybe this was the way to explain the manifestations of her father's paranoia, which was one of the symptoms of symbiosis, and Tara and her family were trapped in the garbage-like home under her father's arbitrary arrangement.
Father often said that life and death were in God's hands anyway, and doctors could not help much. Therefore, when family members are sick or in a car accident, their father will not send them to the doctor.
Taylor later decided to go to college and leave the home that disgusted him. He worked hard for a long time.
The subsequent effects of Taylor are of extraordinary significance to Tara, as she learns to sit at a borrowed desk and ponder teachings that she does not understand, which gradually becomes a vital ability, and this is the meaning of education.
"It's time to leave, Tara, the longer you stay, the less likely you are to leave." Taylor, who said this, had just seen how his brother Sean bullied Tara the day before, and like a copy, Sean had almost become the same person as their father.
I have created a new piece of history for myself.
The past was a ghost, ethereal, with little influence. Only the future has power. "When You Fly Like a Bird to Your Mountain"
"When life itself is so absurd, who knows what counts as madness?" (Don Quixote)
Tara was so tortured that she could not calm down and continue writing her thesis, she once thought that she was going to finish her career, but fortunately, after surviving that difficult time, Tara's thesis was appreciated by her supervisor, and he expressed his joy with a high evaluation, and in this way, Tara Westerv became a young doctor.
In the movie "No Questions Asked", when it rained heavily, the sound of the tin house vibrated the roof tiles, and the professors' voices were disturbed by the heavy rain, and finally wrote "Sit quietly and listen to the rain!" "It's a time to quiet down and think quietly. Everyone's life is indispensable to such moments of thinking.
Tara's path to education has been more arduous than many of us have imagined. Over the years, the term "original family" has been mentioned many times, and the child's future growth is largely a reproduction of his parents, and the escape of Taylor and Tara in this special case is a small probability event.
There will be many, many similar difficult moments in life, and for Tara, who has crossed the hardest parts and is trying to get rid of the subsequent influence and control, she is like a bird with a goal, trying to fly to her own mountain.
Everyone should read this book, whether as a child or a parent. Then close your eyes and think, are you ashamed of life? What adjustments do you need to make? ...... Maybe after you understand Tara's path to study, you will also become a good book recommendation officer, constantly recommending this book to the people around you, to see and learn Tara's tenacious and strong spirit.
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