WHY YOU HAVE TO GO AND MAKE THINGS SO COMPLICATED
Everything is so complicated, all the time. Trying to assert a Spanish identity in a neighborhood full of Puerto Rican people? Complicated. Learning that my friend is pregnant on the same day another friend of ours died? Complicated. Consuming well-made, engaging yet morally questionable media? Complicated.
THIS IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICE BERG. ALL COLLEGE HAS DONE IS INCAPACITATE ME WITH COMPLICATIONS. No matter what I do, I'm not doing something else, and maybe that other thing is better? Better for whom? There is no right or wrong, only decisions, and I'm getting really sick of it. I don't know how to react to anything anymore, I just wait to see what other people do and then respond in kind.
Choosing an Avril Lavigne lyrics for the title of this post? Complicated (that was a joke, a pun, and an observation. Like I said, complicated).
Other things that are complicated:
-reading Don Quixote, both as a white Spanish person living in a Puerto Rican neighborhood, and then again as a white Spanish person in a mostly white classroom.
-Don Quixote, both the book and my relationship to it (as a Spanish person)
-being a white Spanish person living in a Puerto Rican neighborhood and going to a mostly white rich at the very least, expensive school.
-shopping at thrift stores in my neighborhood
-frequenting the one organic market in my neighborhood
-pretty much everything to do with all my various kinds of privilege, and also my neighborhood
-so basically everything.
I should suck it up and stop being a whiny white girl. Obviously it could be worse. And now even whining and being in a mood is complicated. This could just go on all day.
edit: EVEN WEBCOMICS ARE COMPLICATED TODAY http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1649 because I love helium so much...
edit2: I just want to let y'all know, I was laughing by the end of this, so I think writing it helped. I guess I just can't take myself seriously, which might actually be part of the problem, but maybe writing is part of the solution! Good work today everyone, go team.
THIS IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICE BERG. ALL COLLEGE HAS DONE IS INCAPACITATE ME WITH COMPLICATIONS. No matter what I do, I'm not doing something else, and maybe that other thing is better? Better for whom? There is no right or wrong, only decisions, and I'm getting really sick of it. I don't know how to react to anything anymore, I just wait to see what other people do and then respond in kind.
Choosing an Avril Lavigne lyrics for the title of this post? Complicated (that was a joke, a pun, and an observation. Like I said, complicated).
Other things that are complicated:
-reading Don Quixote, both as a white Spanish person living in a Puerto Rican neighborhood, and then again as a white Spanish person in a mostly white classroom.
-Don Quixote, both the book and my relationship to it (as a Spanish person)
-being a white Spanish person living in a Puerto Rican neighborhood and going to a mostly white rich at the very least, expensive school.
-shopping at thrift stores in my neighborhood
-frequenting the one organic market in my neighborhood
-pretty much everything to do with all my various kinds of privilege, and also my neighborhood
-so basically everything.
I should suck it up and stop being a whiny white girl. Obviously it could be worse. And now even whining and being in a mood is complicated. This could just go on all day.
edit: EVEN WEBCOMICS ARE COMPLICATED TODAY http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1649 because I love helium so much...
edit2: I just want to let y'all know, I was laughing by the end of this, so I think writing it helped. I guess I just can't take myself seriously, which might actually be part of the problem, but maybe writing is part of the solution! Good work today everyone, go team.