Literary lives?
2 years ago • NotesMaybe the reason certain things are hard for us (like closure, and uncertainty, and our futures) is because we demand that our lives play out like a book. We literally refer to our lives in “chapters”, and we try to piece together what constitutes another “story” in our lives. It’s difficult when it doesn’t work out that way for some reason or another. You try to make sense of the characters, try to pinpoint the conflict, really get into the subtext. It’s not like that. It is, but not in the present. How we see our futures, yeah, sure, that is like a story, and it is most certainly how we view our past (to the point of distorted and romanticized chapters), but we live in the present, and when we’re struggling to turn the page, we get stuck. There are no static characters, there is no conventional plot. I guess what I am saying is: we cannot conceptualize our relationships, people are not that easy. How did you get so smart.
