There's Something About Mira

by Sonali Dev

Also, the term “friendship” is what we call in light theory a spectrum: every component of the beam is not equal. Some parts of the spectrum are brilliant, blinding, can vaporize you with their intensity. Others simply exist to make the brilliant parts bearable.

I get why he had to leave, but how can he not get that both of us can’t abandon our parents? Not only am I the only family my brother has left, but I’m also the only child my parents have left. I’m basically stuck overcompensating in both roles because no one else will give even an inch.

But she’s an adult who’s just as responsible for how she treats me as I am for how I treat her.

“It is hard to do the thing you want when you’ve been taught that doing what others want means loving them.