What has struck me in these past 5 weeks of Gender Studies
In Casey Plett's story How to Stay Friends , there was a certain line that caught my attention. On page 99, the line "Grow assured of nothing but how sorry you are. Exist in gyrating states: Apology and peace, apology and anger," really struck me. Something stuck in my brain about that line, not in just the context of the story, where the line fits perfectly in her fictional narrative, but in real life. We as humans, regardless of who we are, typically exist in sorts of gyrating states. Good to bad, bad to better, other emotions interchanging themselves on and off, but these two in the story felt different. Connecting more to the story, we can see these gyrating states being expressed, whether it be Minerva's character experiencing peace in the past, looking back on the good times that were with the ex girlfriend, and we see the state of anger. The fights they got in. The emotion she has to hold back with the ex girlfriend being insensitive. The gyrating states exist ...