Bruno

Discussion (4) ¬

1. 
   llirium

   June 11, 2018 at 10:17 am | #

   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.
2. 
   Peter Rogan

   June 11, 2018 at 2:28 pm | #

   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.
3. 
   ronald

   June 11, 2018 at 11:56 pm | #

   Proving yet again that oh just forget it…
4. 
   llirium

   June 12, 2018 at 1:43 pm | #

   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…