Themes pain or fear of growing up1/10/2024 ![]() Some of these books were introduced to me more recently, and others were found through decades of hiding behind books in order to avoid myself. I’ve found myself constantly revisiting these books, hoping to cultivate a way to present my thoughts. Through these writers, I learned how to disguise my anger with sadness, to amplify my anger with politics, to suppress my anger with humor, and to simply experience my anger and live it. but the books listed below gave me solace. I’ve failed tremendously along the way, but in taking on this task I learned that sometimes you wrong yourself the most. I was (am) looking for any way to express every wrong I felt happened to my bloodline and/or to me, and get it out of my body for good. I was (am) in a constant frenzy of having feelings about everything, remembering, unlearning, and reinterpreting. I thought I was simply completing assignments, but, surprisingly, I was crafting an essay collection. ![]() I describe When You Learn the Alphabet as a bunch of mad stories because once I began taking writing seriously, everything I didn’t realize I was angry about started to reveal itself in abundance. I never felt like an adult, I only felt afraid. ![]() I essentially wrote all of it between the ages of nineteen and twenty-two-years when I had everything to say but knew nothing. I’m good at neither of these things-which is why When You Learn the Alphabet is what it is. Two facts about growing up are forgiving your child self and picking out outfits everyday. ![]()
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