Warona Writes Poetry

god im reading a text about romance fiction (especially targeted at young adults) for class and one sentence in it literally made my brain explode because ive been thinking about this kind of stuff too, how “Many people wouldn’t fall in love if they’ve never heard about it before.” and like…imagine there was no ideal/overaccentuated image of love and romance painted in postmodern mass media….how would we love? would it be purer? more authentic? what would we do differently? would we fall in love at all if we werent constantly being fed an ideal concept of love as the norm in mass media? like what is a natural process of human feelings and what is just a projection of how we want to love and want to be loved based on what we’ve seen on tv and read in books etc? in this essay i will

w … wh … where’s the rest of the essay, op? 

That unknown is me and this was my diary entry from 7 years ago

me: i’m going to clean my room! i’m going to take a shower! i will wake up early and take care of myself! brain: u know whats fun? rotting.

Don’t just speak it into existence! Act on it! Make a plan! Get going! Little steps will get you all the way!

inner peace? don’t know her heard great things. I’m following her on ig she won’t follow back

“Cloud Study”, John Constable, 1822

tropes that need to die: redemption arcs for abusive fathers

also: “I finally forgive him” arcs for the adult children of abusive parent figures

not to mention abusive relationships, where they forgive the abuser, because ‘they’ve changed’

shoot the “maybe they really were doing the best for me” trope in the face