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Unpolished gem pung5/9/2023 We talked all the time, but we hadn't yet learned the words to link thoughts and ideas with any depth of feeling, because we didn't really talk to adults. And if people thought that fifteen-year-old girls never thought about these sorts of things, it was only because we didn't have the words to express them. Thoughts about the best way to be stoic, how to live with very little control in life, how to make the most of a miserable time doing something that you were supposed to love. Each girl was an island of her own dreams and insecurities, thoughts that made us different in a deeper way than the differences of musical taste, clothes or even culture. At this school, the worst thing was trying to rise above the limits set for you by the minds of others. People, even well-intentioned people, were always trying to take away our quiet little successes and joys and replace them with big, overarching fears. “I wasn't afraid of being alone, but I was afraid of what people would think about my solitary state.
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