Comments on: 06/11/2018 http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=7144 Tue, 20 May 2025 03:13:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: llirium http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=7144&cpage=1#comment-296317 llirium Tue, 12 Jun 2018 17:43:46 +0000 http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=7144#comment-296317 I don't think teenagers have ever been well-adjusted, sensitive and wise people *on average*. Even one like Amy who's a bit ahead of the curve of development into adulthood still doesn't have enough experience or power to change her own life for the better. A lot of the frustration one feels as a teenager is because of this lack of power to change their own life, whether it be legal power or hierarchical, familial power. Amy isn't very likable, but she is what she is: a teenager struggling, as most will for the next several years. I'm sure glad my parents put up with my teenaged self, I was really miserable to be around or talk with. They probably did so because they remembered how awful they felt as teenagers, and so the cycle goes... I don’t think teenagers have ever been well-adjusted, sensitive and wise people *on average*. Even one like Amy who’s a bit ahead of the curve of development into adulthood still doesn’t have enough experience or power to change her own life for the better. A lot of the frustration one feels as a teenager is because of this lack of power to change their own life, whether it be legal power or hierarchical, familial power.

Amy isn’t very likable, but she is what she is: a teenager struggling, as most will for the next several years. I’m sure glad my parents put up with my teenaged self, I was really miserable to be around or talk with. They probably did so because they remembered how awful they felt as teenagers, and so the cycle goes…

]]> By: ronald http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=7144&cpage=1#comment-296316 ronald Tue, 12 Jun 2018 03:56:30 +0000 http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=7144#comment-296316 Proving yet again that oh just forget it... Proving yet again that oh just forget it…

]]> By: Peter Rogan http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=7144&cpage=1#comment-296315 Peter Rogan Mon, 11 Jun 2018 18:28:09 +0000 http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=7144#comment-296315 Well, that's what friends are for -- to help us carry each other over the gulfs we encounter. You shouldn't attach yourself to just one such person, marriage notwithstanding, but Bruno is in the special position of liberating Amy from what could have been a shallow, unexamined existence. She made herself exceptional to Amy, and now she has to deal with it. As does Amy, without assurance of a second pleasant outcome. Well, that’s what friends are for — to help us carry each other over the gulfs we encounter. You shouldn’t attach yourself to just one such person, marriage notwithstanding, but Bruno is in the special position of liberating Amy from what could have been a shallow, unexamined existence. She made herself exceptional to Amy, and now she has to deal with it. As does Amy, without assurance of a second pleasant outcome.

]]> By: llirium http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=7144&cpage=1#comment-296314 llirium Mon, 11 Jun 2018 14:17:09 +0000 http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=7144#comment-296314 It's a danger to attach to someone else better than you have to your parents... you end up asking too much of them, inevitably. It’s a danger to attach to someone else better than you have to your parents… you end up asking too much of them, inevitably.

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