Hopeless Romantic Society - by Haaniyah Angus

An essay on love & romcoms

In her song ‘First Love/Late Spring,’ Mitski laments, “And I was so young when I behaved twenty-five. Yet now, I find I've grown into a tall child.” With the onset of my mid-twenties, I faced what all 24-year-olds eventually confront: mortality and youth. “Will I get those feared hereditary illnesses after all?” “Maybe I should take up yoga again?” “What the fuck am I doing with my life?” Despite embracing adulthood by moving out and being plagued by sky-high bills and terrible landlords, I still felt more like a child than I ever had under my parents' roof. There's no fun in…

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