The Bright Side of Going Dark

by Kelly Harms

is determined. And the larger fact must stay with you: Suicide is a cocktail of events, health conditions, and personal situations. It is not the result of any one incident.

Come on. You post pictures of wedding dresses on a website. You give people a distraction from their real lives and a false sense of familiarity that stands between them and having true connection, true community. Your impossible-to-live-up-to images make people think there’s no point in even trying to enjoy the messy real lives they have been given.”

See what life is like when you’re looking at it directly and not through a tiny screen.”

I have a natural instinct to get under one guy to get over another, so to speak. It’s not the worst idea.

I feel a chill. It’s the chill of the sheer meanness, the artless yet multidimensional cruelty that this one purportedly human commenter has been able to dump into the world in just a few lines. Cruelty

That’s her secret: if you are unwilling to reshape yourself every time the times change, you are, effectively, timeless.

“Grown-up life is all about choosing what to let in and what to keep out.

“It’s better,” I realize aloud, “if you just run at the truth full speed.” The truth, the sorrow, the grief, the joy.