After a good talk with the boy, I'm feeling much better so right now all I'm going to do is live in the present.
In other news, I just finished reading Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart last night (due to my inability to fall asleep). It is...different. As the title suggests, there's not much mystery about how the book will end, but the interesting part is the journey towards the end of the book, for sure. It's set in the near future (first in Italy, then New York) and chronicles a 39-year-old man, Lenny who falls for a 20-something Korean-American girl, Eunice Park. This book is read through the diary entries of Lenny and the conversations (something like emails and chat sessions) of Eunice with various people. Yup, interesting.
Sadly, in the near future, the younger generation's intelligence level is at a disturbing level. They don't read books, at least not printed publications. Everything's digital, no one can live without the digital device Shteyngart refers to as an "apparat" (It has all your details in it, and can calculate a lot of things including your lifespan, finances, and believe it or not: f**kability. hilarious). It's funny but scary when the younger generation don't know how to spell common words and have not heard of most important literary works in the past.
Besides a sad love story, there's also mayhem in the political side, what might (or could?) happen to America and probably the whole world.
It was an enjoyable read definitely, because you just need to know what happens next.
{thanks to Jolynn for lending this to me xx}
Currently listening to: furniture's album. It's gonna be worth my money.
peace+love
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