“It is a muggy August morning and the air in the room is still. Well over half the year has gone by already, which is a worry. I wanted to make something of myself this year. There’s still time, I think. Definitely some time.”
i’m sorry but are we really really entering an era where we are talking about “girl films” and “boy films” w ZERO irony like is this for actual real is this genuinely fully where we are right now somebody wake me up please i am BEGGING
i don’t know if this was supposed to be a joke but i do not care even if it is it’s the year of our lord 2023 in the age of mass communication via the internet no tongue in cheek comments that riff on pre-established biases and prejudices is EVER going to remain ironic your #justgirlythings joke may be understood between friends but not the 100+ online strangers some of whom will DEFINITELY believe it to be true i am begging people to think for two minutes literally just TWO minutes
Pretend, for example, that you were born in Chicago and have never had the remotest desire to visit Hong Kong, which is only a name on a map for you; pretend that some convulsion, sometimes called accident, throws you into connection with a man or a woman who lives in Hong Kong; and that you fall in love. Hong Kong will immediately cease to be a name and become the center of your life. And you may never know how many people live in Hong Kong. But you will know that one man or one woman lives there without whom you cannot live. And this is how our lives are changed, and this is how we are redeemed.
What a journey this life is! Dependent, entirely, on things unseen. If your lover lives in Hong Kong and cannot get to Chicago, it will be necessary for you to go to Hong Kong. Perhaps you will spend your life there, and never see Chicago again. And you will, I assure you, as long as space and time divide you from anyone you love, discover a great deal about shipping routes, airlines, earth quake, famine, disease, and war. And you will always know what time it is in Hong Kong, for you love someone who lives there. And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time and, furthermore, to win.
