So Relatable. (Diary Logs #4)

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Dear Diary,

The other day I watched ‘Thirteen Reasons Why’. I watched all 13 episodes in one go. Not a brilliant move for such a sad show. Needless to say, I liked it. There are so many incidents in it that hit home. The way Justin uses Hannah & spreads rumours about her. The way you are best friends one day, but strangers the next, blaming them for your death. The way everybody gets bullied in high school. The way how you should’ve spoken up & about missed opportunities. You start to feel depressed & suicidal even when you’re perfectly happy in your own life. And yet, your happy self starts to relate to the story & you go back to your past high school days to feel all the sadness.

“I made it to the end,
I nearly paid the cost,
I lost a lot of friends,
I sacrificed a lot,
I’d do it all again,
‘Cause I made it to the top,
I can’t keep doubting myself anymore.”

So, be it books or television or music or any random thing in the universe, there is ALWAYS something that will make you relate to it. And maybe that is the only feeling we need sometimes. To not feel alone. Just knowing that some stranger somewhere is feeling the exact same thing that you are feeling makes you less lonely. And in that moment, from one stranger to another stranger, it’a a butterfly effect, maybe that’s all you need. And for that moment, it is enough.