book report - daisy jones & the six

I just finished reading Daisy Jones & The Six and let me tell ya… it has had an affect on me. I immediately started crying at the end of the book. It’s fascinating that a book can bring you emotions that you couldn’t remember or didn’t know you had, and feel things that you don’t even feel when they come up in your own life. The book made me think about the walls that I have put up and that I haven’t allowed myself to love as romantically as I think I am capable of. If I were to write a memoir about my life and reflect on the different experiences that I had, all the complex emotions and thoughts that I had, would I feel the same deep emotional state that I do reading this? I am so in awe of each of the character’s ability to love someone else so much. I know that I am capable of giving this kind of love, but receiving? I want it so bad. I yearn for a romantic connection. I yearn to feel emotions, no matter how challenging and gut-wrenching they may be. I have been cold and numb for so long, and I’m ready to really feel. I can allow myself to feel before I’m perfect because I’ll never be perfect. I give myself permission to take risks, real risks, especially when it comes to love. Life is meant to be lived, emotions are meant to be felt, love is meant to be given and received. And never judge the way another person gives and receives and views their love story.

I also want to reflect on the difference in love between Camila and Billy, and Daisy and Billy. C&B met first and C immediately stood out to B. What about her set her apart from the rest of the women? Why was she placed in his path at that time of his life? They had a steady and all-encompassing love, the kind that you hope you get someday. Where someone would do literally anything for you and even with mistakes, cheating, etc… you always know that they’re going to be there. But Daisy and Billy had the fire and passion and seemed so similar. Would billy have loved camila if he met daisy first? Or would daisy and billy have ruined each other due to their addictive personalities and too-similar tendencies? Was camila truly billy’s soulmate to balance him out / be what he needed and he hers, and daisy was a true love? Do some people get a soulmate who is also their passionate lover and similar partner? Maybe this is where faith and trust in the universe comes in, and you have to follow your intuition. Did billy follow the safe option because he knew it would save his life? Was it selfish? Or selfless?And people like graham who love someone so hard that they forever think about that person… what if you end up with someone who can’t get another person out of their brain? Maybe it all comes down to trusting your own love story. Loving as hard as you can and following your intuition… and letting the universe do the rest.