The Lesson I Learned From Bella Swan by Faye

The Lesson I Learned From Bella Swan by Faye - October 2025 Scholarship Essay

In my journey through my small home library, I often become overwhelmed with the heavy content of the books I read, and choose to read a "Fun Book". Which is a book to break up the long stretches I go only reading deep or historical books. For my most recent "Fun Book" series I chose the Twilight Saga. To my surprise I actually learned a valuable lesson from the main character Bella Swan. Bella is constantly hanging out mainly, with two men who are either interested in her, or her interested in them, and her life is terrible. She places all of her expectations and emotional weight upon the beauty and heroism of one man. She places him on such a high pedestal to the point she feels she can never possibly be enough for him. Her life revolves around men, and she is miserable, obsessing over a boy, or both. She taught me to make sure my life does not revolve one person, or my partner. You have to have other things that you get joy from, you have to have friends and hobbies that take you out into the world. Obsessing over one person will not only make you feel inadequate but the other person cannot possibly live up to your expectations. If your life revolves around only who you are dating or interested in at the time, you create unattainable expectations that cause any action made by the person causes an intense reaction to you, which is unhealthy. Bella may try to hang out with other people, but is always preoccupied with her romantic interest, while she might think she has a predetermined soulmate, at least some of her infatuation and belief that she HAS to be with Edward is her own expectations she places on him. Bella has taught me anytime I seem a bit too obsessed with someone, to take a step back , immerse myself in my own hobbies, and mold them in my mind as a real person, not a romanticized perfect version of them.