When I was a child I thought it was a wonderful book. Clear that then I could believe, had to believe in a better future. One where fly free, where not only will go to sleep and eat.
For many years kept the hope of a future better: "when finish school and go to the High School I'll have friends, some kid'll fixed on me, no one will pick on me...". The same hope had for when arrived to the HS and then to the University.
Now I'm more realistic. My skin is tanned from the wounds. I can't believe. I have the wisdom and the certainty that nothing will change. My life will always be the same (and I pray that not worse). I never achieve Nirvana (at least not in life).
"You learn nothing, and the next world will be just like this, with the same limitations and overcome lead weights".