My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

This was my second time reading it, so it was interesting to see how different my relation to the story would be. It is still remarkably relatable and touching. If you are going through some hard times or you know someone who is, then maybe the author's experiences with her own difficulties of trying to connect with people and fulfill social expectations will give some insight. I also think the problems she discusses are much more widespread in society than many believe, but a lot of people who are affected can't talk about it due to various stigmas, so it's good that she was brave enough to share her story. While it already won a bunch of awards, I still think it's not known widely enough, especially outside the anime/manga sphere. Even if you've never read a manga or graphic novel before, I recommend checking out this one. It's short, but packs a lot of feelings into its 140-ish pages.

It's a life story of someone, but it just spoke to me directly and made me happy and anxious. It was hard to see someone who exposed, lonely, depressed and having problems finding a personality. I wasn't expecting to feel that close to this person and have the same feelings. All of us get through things like identity issues, finding a meaning in life, social interactions, depression and being a person in a society surrounded by the norms for centuries. These problems affect all of us and still affecting us. Trying to be a person to have a discrete identity, having a meaning in life and not just living by what others tell and did is just a hard thing to do. And we all at some point feel lost in these problems, and I think it's natural because without asking and questioning the things we love, and we want, requires being out of the norm, being alone. Without getting out of the way of living people say to us, we can't find a meaningful way to live as we want, we can't have a discrete, unique identity, we can't have meaning and will to live. I hope all the hard times he had gives us meaningful results. It made me happy to see I'm not alone and gave me hope to live and get through these hard times. I feel like this book become my friend and I will read this book when I feel the same feelings. It's such an honest and brave piece of art.