finding a voice. [ west of the moon, 18 march 2017 ]
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My freshman year in college, I was good friends with one of the guys who lived upstairs in my dorm. A lot of the appeal in hanging out with him was that he was cynical and sarcastic about everything. I suppose it was a mean-spirited sense of humor, but I was eighteen and drowning in uncertainty about my place in the world, and I felt like his attitude delineated a very clear us-and-them circle; I was on the inside, for some reason, and his constant dry skepticism was always directed to the outside.
finding a voice. [ west of the moon, 18 march 2017 ]
finding a voice. [ west of the moon, 18 march…
finding a voice. [ west of the moon, 18 march 2017 ]
My freshman year in college, I was good friends with one of the guys who lived upstairs in my dorm. A lot of the appeal in hanging out with him was that he was cynical and sarcastic about everything. I suppose it was a mean-spirited sense of humor, but I was eighteen and drowning in uncertainty about my place in the world, and I felt like his attitude delineated a very clear us-and-them circle; I was on the inside, for some reason, and his constant dry skepticism was always directed to the outside.