Pain & Pleasure

By Hazel J Young

This book was made to reach the masses, uncovering everyone's deepest darkest secrets... we're all humans! Being human isn't always as glamorous as it seems behind closed doors, although we may believe it is with the facade of our current society. I don't sugar coat that simple fact in this book. Due to this one simple fact, we tend to not only, internalize negativity and believe it to be true, beat away positivity or help, because we couldn't imagine a world where someone could actually understand you, and/or redirect our emotions onto others; unknowingly continuing this cycle... but there's hope as life has a tad of pain and a tad of pleasure! This book encompasses the mind of a young 19-year-old, who never felt comfortable in his own skin, which led him to think, process, and observe others just to feel normal and strive to fit in somewhere...someday. This book encapsulates everyone's mind, at a certain stage in their life through a plethora of short stories. May that be past, present, or future. Each poem is its own personal lesson, written like an easy to read but somehow captivating story, inviting and encouraging everyone of all ages. Spanning from the darkest of themes like depression, isolation, anxiety, suicide and how they can be a beautiful stepping stone to something greater. Reaching to the other spectrum of love, joy, elation, lust and the devastating fact that you could lose it all or realize you never truly had it in the first place. How deceitful something that feels so good and genuine can lull you into a sense of complacency, that slowly kills you. Sometimes life is truly black and white, often times it's not. You won't know where each poetic story will take you, but through life or death, pain or pleasure, will you take this journey into my mind to find yourself?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1724085638
• ISBN13: 9781724085634
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.4" x 5.0"