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| Articles about Coasters |
| | | Of roller coasters and elusive things | | 2007-04-11 23:27:00 | | A good friend recently told me he believed that the emotional and existential struggles ever-present in our lives to be an inseparable part of the twenties. This was spoken in the hopes that aging will bring stability of some sort; a kind of settling into life. Sometimes this ambiguous point feels unobtainable, as if it is moving away from us at a rate only slightly faster than we’re aging; enticingly within sight yet never close enough to grasp. We set mental milestones, perhaps one of the first was sixteen, then eighteen, later twenty-one, and now it’s thirty and beyond. Can contentment truly be found?The first four years into my twenties have been bittersweet, bringing both the highest and lowest moments of life so far. Ever since thirteen – or whenever it was that I became aware of girls as romantic and relational beings and desired the companionship of one of those elusive creatures – my existence has been tempered and defined by encounters with raw emotion and unrequited ... | | By: Despair and Coffee | | |
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