I feel like pushing back a little whenever I see a cynical take about how nostalgia is self-delusion "The '80s weren't a great time to be alive, they sucked in many ways actually" "If you study history, America was never great" "Childhood was shittier than being an adult"
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Instead of shrinking deeper and deeper into myself, brutally wounding myself with the cold bitter numbness that cuts like a knife, until, with my eyes closed tight and my teeth drawing blood from my cheek, I made myself let go
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What if, when I opened my eyes with the pain shooting through my arm, realizing I was alive, that I was going to go home now and life was going to go on as it was before What if that made me feel *relief*
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Neil Gaiman made Despair and Desire twin siblings in Sandman Like if you really don't understand what the word "dysphoria" means just remember it's the exact opposite of "euphoria"
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Just imagine all the memories you go back to that make life bearable, the scrapbook of photos that get you through hard times And understand everyone has one of those, but some people have to live with the knowledge that all the photos are fakes
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