Even my anxiety currently makes me think that I'm wasting my time, lol.
I was laughing my way through The Bell Jar with Sylvia's witty, quirky, & depressingly detached writing, but out of nowhere she hits me with emotional despair that weirdly feels both validating & haunting.
Silvia Plath's fig tree analogy is so hard hitting and deeply resonating. The inability to make a decision and the fear and regret of making the wrong decision. To watch life pass by and all the opportunities to inevitably decay into nothing.
@yourlocaldaadi Idk about a book, but Makoto Shinkai's film - She and Her cat touch on the topic of losing a pet/cat, it provides the pets pov as well. There's a book with the same title, but again, grief and loss is not the main theme of the book. Still you can give it a shot. It'll help you.
There's such unfiltered rawness & profundity in the way korean female authors portray the deeply humane and layered emotional journey of women - A mother's labor, struggle, sorrow, grief, strength, & sacrifices, all wrapped in silence & unseen & unacknowledged by everyone. ๐ค
There's this b'ful excerpt where the mother talks about her experience of first time motherhood to her eldest child, which overwhelmed to tears. Every single page is so emotionally charged, it made me miss my mother & grandmother, even though I'm currently with my mother. ๐ญ๐ญ