Status Updates From Swimming in the Dark

I've been reading this at the same time as watching Shine on Netflix (cold war homosexuality maxxing) and this does not compare. It's like a kid's version

🗒️ ‘No matter what happens in the world, however brutal or dystopian a thing, not all is lost if there are people out there risking themselves to document it. Little sparks cause fires too.’

🗒️ ‘My memory has its limits, of course. It may color in the blanks without admitting to it, dramatise or revise. I guess there is no photographic memory for emotions.’

🗒️ ‘There was nowhere I could be without being with others, having to interact or to act.’