Us against you is an excellent book with stories well told and characters well constructed. Many things happened, and many people lived in the book, but today I only want to talk about three people and one thing - when should we give up our dreams?

Peter was a famous hockey player and is a general manager of the Beartown hockey club. To him, hockey is everything and is the only thing. He devotes his life to the team, but as you’ve read. The team has been turned to a political chip. What he can do is so little. Facing the breakage of his marriage, plus the dead of a player, he gave up his dream of making the Beartown hockey team famous again.

Kira is a lawyer giving up her dream to take care of the family because peter spent too much time in the rink. At last, she picked up her dream and opened a start-up with her best friend.

Beji is a hockey player who can only find peace on the ice. Playing hockey is the only sanctuary for this troubled body. He gave up the hockey when the other people cannot accept that he is a guy.

We all have dreams, and we’re all struggling to keep up. Life is too hard; never giving up is just too hard. Sometimes, maybe most of the time, you just don’t stand a chance to win because you lack the ability or the luck. You’re just stuck there, slowly losing your grip to everything.

But how do we know if things would turn better? There are plenty of famous examples that they won at the edge of complete bankruptcy. We can’t trust ourselves because we always biased. But we can’t trust other people either, because they are even more biased. How do we know when to give up?

In the novel, Peter will be happy because he chose another life which he may be more useful and will keep the family together. Kira is happy because she can finally do what she wants to do. Benji is lost...

I’m lost, too...