Now I knew Hannah Hart through youtubers Grace Helbig and Mamrie Hart. She would collaborate with them as the holy trinity youtuber and they are still to this day the best trio on the internet. I would see her in collabs with people I was subscribed to, like them, Tyler Oakley, Connor Franta, etc. I have been watching those people for years now and I have seen Hannah progress through those videos. I haven't had the chance to explore in depth her own channel, but what I see hit my curiosity button. I was strolling through Barnes and Noble and I saw her book Buffering. I knew she wrote a cook book previously, but I never read it cause I am not a cook. This was a good old book about her and I was totally intrigued. I bought it and now it is sitting on the shelf with all my youtuber books I have. I finally got around to it and boy is it good.
Like I said before I had never gone in depth into her or her channel, so reading her book was a eye opener. She has gone through hella shit and that was what was crazy. I never would have known this things by just seeing these funny, light-hearted videos that were popping up on my feed. Every story she told was a revelation into something deeper into who she was. The things that she had to deal with as a child was something I could never imagine and I give her major props. She turned her situation into progress and that is completely amazing. She grew from what her childhood gave her and made her life better. It was truly inspiring to read and put myself into her shoes through her stories.
This person I was reading about seemed completely different from the internet personality who cooks drunk on youtube. It was such a flip to what I saw of her in video form. It made me so happy that I decided to venture into this book and the stories she had to tell. She speaks for the ones who can't on mental illness, depression, anxiety, and more. She lets you know that the struggles you are going through are okay and that you aren't the only one. It is such a reassuring book with a moral at the end of each chapter. It made me sad, it made me angry, but it also made me happy. Now that I see her in 2018, even if it is only a small part, I can see how happy she is in her life right now. She has grown so much from that person she was in 2012-2016 and I couldn't be happier for her.
I have always been inspired by the trio that is Grace, Mamrie, and Hannah. However, I have a new found respect for them all and especially Hannah. They are some of my favorite comedians to this day. Please if you haven't go read "Buffering," it is beautiful. (you can also read grace and mamries books if you want- they are also a hoot!).
Favorite Quotes: "Buffering is that time you spend waiting for the pixels of your life to crystallize into a clearer picture; it's a time of reflection, a time of pause, a time for regaining your composure or readjusting your course. We all have a limited amount of mental and emotional bandwidth, and some of life's episodes take a long time to fully load."
"I've always been a big believer in sharing ideas. The magic is not in the "what" of the idea, it's in the "how." Because honestly, no one can steal your ability to come up with new thoughts."
"I try to remind myself daily that success and failure have less to do with actual results but rather how we choose to respond to the results. You can squander success and you can overcome failure. You can flourish or you can flounder. Sometimes it's about choosing which feelings to fight and which feelings to follow."
"Sometimes it's just easier to decide that someone is the bad guy. But the truth is never that simple."
"With our bodies we make statements before we speak, our presentation is language spoken without words. You - and only you - get to decide what it is you're trying to say."
"All or nothing. That's my thought spiral. You're in or you're out. You win or you die. Game of Thrones is the best. Etc., etc., etc." (GOT is the best... can't wait for season 8).
"It wasn't that Life had selected their family to suffer, but rather that in Life there is both Suffering and Joy."
"There is much in this world that hurts us, but if we let pain become our master, we live our lives as slaves."
