Personal Experience In The Song Fragments By An Unkindness

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Naturally, us humans can become scared. Fear can’t just be limited to traditional “spooky” things like spiders, as things like large crowds, adulthood, school and mental concepts terrify people. The most terrifying thing I’ve experienced, with my subjective fears in mind, was my all-too-sudden move from California to Michigan in late 2016. The song “Fragments” by An Unkindness, which I recently discovered, presents the fear I had with social perfection, rejection, and loss of relationships. Late 2016, my parents had let me know that in the next 2 months, we would be leaving our home in Carlsbad, California to a new house near Detroit, Michigan. That information was like being slammed into a wall. After being there for almost 5 years, I had no idea how to cope with the fact in a mere 8 weeks I’d be leaving my home to start all over again, not to mention in the middle of the year, in a new house, school, and …show more content…
I mentioned my long-time-best friend/short-term-ex-girlfriend, Briana. Losing someone who means so much is absolutely terrible because it’s like losing a part of you. I hurt for a long time after we stopped talking, though I knew that she was done with me and stopped hurting long before I did. Before we finally stopped talking, I would try and get her to like me again through actions or discussing old topics. Every action had me asking her the questions in the lyrics “Do you love me now?... Don’t you love me now?... Why don’t you love me now?” in my mind. I don’t think she ever said yes, and I rue the actions I made leading to that. While I was at that time, part of my legitimately thought she would like me again and I was terrified of a “no” situation. Eventually, I did lose her and I had to love through one of my biggest fears and that was terrible. However, this paragraph is getting too long and my experiences living through my fear is too long to tell

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