Let me introduce you to Marten. This charming young lad is the main character in my favorite webcomic, Questionable Content, which you should do yourself a favor and read from the start:
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1
Marten is a skinny pale teenager who seems completely unhappy with his life. (For fuck's sake, his whole apartment is painted dark blue!)
I've been reading this comic for 5 years now, through every angsty storyline.
The reason I find this relevant at all to share with whoever my inexistent readers are is because I went on a Nostalgia binge. Full package. "I'll Follow You Into The Dark" by Death Cab For Cutie, went through all my facebook pictures, went through all my exes facebook pictures, and started reading Questionable Content from comic #1.
The reason this had such a big effect on me is because of my friend Marten up there, you see...
This is what Marten is looking like now a days. Better drawn, more solid, bigger jaw, happier eyes, a hint of a smile, and yet he happens to be wearing the same Tshirt he wore 1695 pages ago.
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1695
Seeing the reflection of the Tshirt made me feel reflected myself. As I read through the old issues while listening to nostalgia fuel, I felt as if I was back in freshman year, with all my hopes for the future and preoccupation with the present.
I went to the bathroom for a glass of water and saw what I had become, my reflection exposing to me how, I too, am now drawn differently. My old preoccupations have disappeared, my future is already here, and I am happier than I was back in my old room.
This week I chose my classes for NYUAD, went job-hunting, and watched the heart-retching finale to the Toy Story series, each enough to send me into the realization that my childhood is over by themselves, and I've concluded my younger self would approve of this reflection.
Here's to hoping my future self doesn't disappoint me, and still enjoys reading about Marten.
This Is Modern Literature,
For Children
