#18. Being Seen and Heard, Feb 2023
Conversation with Friends, Female friendships
Hi hi!
As much as I would like to keep up the act of being a broody melancholic writer/poet/ artist, who carries the burdens of the world on her shoulders, and lives mysteriously in isolation, I think and feel otherwise. I am at my creative best when I have company, my mind is able to come up with new ideas, and my motivation is shooting through the roof. I am generally full of life and feel wholesome.
I thrive when I am seen and heard.
Reading Corner
Conversation with Friends starts off as an easy read. It is engaging and contemporary. We go through the lives of college-going best friends, as they befriend new people in their lives, people with slightly more power and wealth than them. But it is also a story about how, even though you are best of friends, you may still have an imbalance in your equation with each other. Francesca and Bobbi are aware of this imbalance but don’t do a good job addressing it. The narration is honest and raw and really draws you in.
Conversation with Friends comes off as a story that has a take on infidelity, but really, it is about best friends, who are trying to keep their friendship alive without hurting themselves.
Some of my favorites are
I was a very autonomous and independent person with an inner life that nobody else had ever touched or perceived.
He was the first person I had met since Bobbi who made me enjoy conversation, in the same irrational and sensuous way I enjoyed coffee or loud music.
Though I knew that I would eventually have to enter full-time employment, I certainly never fantasized about a radiant future where I was paid to perform an economic role. Sometimes this felt like a failure to take an interest in my own life, which depressed me.
Writing Corner
Taking a break from our serial this month.
I wrote a Poem for Femme_Fridays which appeared on their Instagram for the PoetryxLove theme. Femme_Fridays is a woman-led initiative providing a safe space for women's voices.
With alarming accuracy, I
Hear
The sounds of heartbreak,
The phone is forever silent,
Now.
I learned to love again, in
sharing
Mundane updates of eating
well
And losing weight in kilos,
In giggles, while spilling tea,
Oh really? In wide-eyed faces,
Tainted with raised eyebrows
In shared hair-pins, and
Borrowed combs, in dresses
Bought and left as keepsake.
I learned to live again, in
Giving and getting love,
From all the women
I had known
For so long.
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Learning Corner
Some interesting things that I found on the internet
Lounge Corner
Came across this cool ‘What If’ Video-
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