What I Learned - Alice by Christina Henry
Not you're average re-telling....an incredibly dark and shocking tale based on Lewis Carroll's beloved Alice in Wonderland. What I Learned: This made me think about the world we live in where mood altering medication amongst other things can be handed out really easily rather than giving people the tools they need to cope with life unmedicated. Probably if you look around the place that you are sitting right now more than two-thirds of the people there are on medication of some description...so many people with their moods altered by chemicals...I wonder how different the world would be if we were all in our "natural" states? Sometimes the only choice and control we have in life is to choose how we react to everything going on around us. A beautiful observation about loss and remembering. The discussions about fate versus choice and nature versus nurture are probably as old as time. I know when I start thinking about these things I ...