Existentially Fraught - #Wattys2015
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Last published Tue, Sep 22, 2015
"You reach this point in your life, this equilibrium between your intelligence and your maturity, where you realize that nothing you do really MATTERS. ... Of course, realistically only about forty percent of the human race has the mental capacity to understand this, and the majority of these people drown their realizations in a pint of hard liquor because, seriously, who wants to accept that everything they do is worthless in the grand scheme of things?"
Amara Bennett used to be satisfied with being unnoticed, a tiny blip in a high school filled with people who all think they're going somewhere. Then reality literally hit her in the face, and oblivion wasn't good enough for her anymore.
Rated Mature for language.
**Title from John Green's The Fault In Our Stars**
Entered in #Wattys2015.
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