Sharp Objects S1E3: Fix

(trigger warning for discussions of self-harm and suicide)

When you’re a teenager, adolescence feels like an eternity.

And not just that the bad hair, cheap make-up, and roiling angst feel as though they’re going on for decades: no, when you’re a teenager, there doesn’t feel like a way out of the place you’re in now. The only other life you know is childhood, and you can’t go back there – adulthood feels impossibly distant, until it suddenly isn’t. Adolescence, for many people, feels impossibly eternal, like there could never be anything different than this.

Read the rest of this entry »