— Sylvia Plath

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I’m actually really insecure. I feel like I’m always gonna fuck things up or people will lose interest in me cause I’m too clingy or too passionate or too much of some other trait that bothers them

Normal People (2020). Everybody is loving the love story, and I mean, that’s great, but I think that what the serie managed to do ( maybe even better than the novel ? ) is a realistic portrait of students’ life. We are pretty used to teen dramas or 20somethings shows only showing the parties, the drugs, the alchool, and all that crazy stuff that we all know nobody is actually living. When we happen to do something just even close to that stereotypical lifestyle we immediately post it on Instagram, but the truth is that we spend most of the time with ourself, worring about the next exams, or criyng under the shower, or we listen to our favourite songwriter making coffee before coming back to our study session. Always a little anxious, a little sad, nostalgic about what we are leaving back and yet dissatisfied about what’ve accomplished. I love Normal People ( the serie) for all those beautiful shots about the ordinary life of young people : days of struggle in the library, of lonely walks to lesson ( at least before covid 19), of making coffee in silent, of starring outside the window asking yourself many things nobody has the answer for. I’m really grateful for that. As a student of law in university I really needed it. We sometimes need someone to tell us, or show us. that our life is not terrible, it’s just normal.

— © Letters From Alex | Instagram

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