Society of Lies

by Lauren Ling Brown

I imagine my mother saying from wherever she is now to take every strange adventure life presents to experience the world, not shy away from it.

When you find someone who sees you in a way no one else does, who understands you and makes you feel like you can’t be whole without them, it wraps you in a vise and makes you forget how to live life without them.

home became the friends that kept showing up, the spaces that welcomed me.

“The world does not make sense. Humans are not rational decision makers—we are driven by our wants, our needs, our fears.”