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Category: Sara Zarr

I wouldn’t say I’m stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.

Life, Me, People

We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring themes are a recurring theme. We never quite conquer a pet vice or a relationship pattern or a communication habit. We’re haunted by our particular demons.

Life, Communication

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

memories, remembrance, story-of-a-girl

My whole life has been one big broken promise.

Katy skipped over, her low-rise jeans threatening to fall off her skinny hips. With some girls, that was a sexy look. With Katy, it made you nervous.

humor, jeans, sexy, teenagers

I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.

kindlehighlight

the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.

kindlehighlight

It’s as if once you hit high school, you’re programmed, like a robot, to be an asshole to your parents.

growing-up, high-school

It’s like a Venn diagram of tragedy.

sadness, tragedy

And I don’t just mean that they change you. A lot of people can change you—the first kid who called you a name, the first teacher who said you were smart, the first person who crowned you best friend. It’s the change you remember, the firsts and what they meant, not really the people.

That’s how you know you really trust someone, I think; when you don’t have to talk all the time to make sure they still like you or prove that you have interesting stuff to say.

No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.

life-and-living