dee Juusan
Two childhood friends—Black, an emotional fashion designer with selective amnesia, and White, a rational writer who’s been absent for two years—reunite to confront their traumatic pasts and navigate the fragile space between heart and mind as they struggle to preserve their friendship on the brink of adulthood.
Style: Right to Left
Genre: Slice of Life, Psychology, Drama
Themes: Friendship, Amnesia, Growing Up, Self-harm, Child Abuse, Death, Coming of Age, Family.
I’ve read this chapter probably 5 times already, but it wasn’t until now that I really understood what Waseem is saying here.
We don’t really have agency over our being. We don’t really understand ourselves either.
Part of growing is to learn in what we believe in and not being so easily swayed. Cultivating that firmness. Being able to stand our ground.