I had a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day, like Danso.
Seeing his day and then week improve was incredibly cathartic, which actually took me by surprise (not merely because I gave the original prompt)!
I'm in a different emotional space than I was on the 14th of November. At the time I was thinking of Danso being lumped into "teen parent" labeling when he actually came at the situation in an entirely different way, and hoping that would be brought into the open for some of the Clueless Adults around him. (Probably everyone has a story about some well-meaning but closed-minded person they had to deal with at Danso's age, for some reason.)
Today, the poem resonated more on an emotional than intellectual level, especially as Danso's reaction (buying lunch for the other person) is one I've used myself more than once. To me, that's being part of society, not something to be scolded for!
If I could pop over to Polychrome with my family, permanently, I would. But then, my stories about this place would probably qualify as /horror/ instead of ordinary fiction from their perspective. Especially in the matter of delinquent lunch accounts-- there were articles the same month as the most publicized Utah incident you linked to for incidents in North Carolina, New Jersey, Oklahoma, and California that I found with just a moment of searching.
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dancing_serpent
OH, Perfect for today.
Date: 2015-01-23 07:49 am (UTC)Seeing his day and then week improve was incredibly cathartic, which actually took me by surprise (not merely because I gave the original prompt)!
I'm in a different emotional space than I was on the 14th of November. At the time I was thinking of Danso being lumped into "teen parent" labeling when he actually came at the situation in an entirely different way, and hoping that would be brought into the open for some of the Clueless Adults around him. (Probably everyone has a story about some well-meaning but closed-minded person they had to deal with at Danso's age, for some reason.)
Today, the poem resonated more on an emotional than intellectual level, especially as Danso's reaction (buying lunch for the other person) is one I've used myself more than once. To me, that's being part of society, not something to be scolded for!
If I could pop over to Polychrome with my family, permanently, I would. But then, my stories about this place would probably qualify as /horror/ instead of ordinary fiction from their perspective. Especially in the matter of delinquent lunch accounts-- there were articles the same month as the most publicized Utah incident you linked to for incidents in North Carolina, New Jersey, Oklahoma, and California that I found with just a moment of searching.