how useful is narrative? - by Kai - golden blue
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curve-fitting to happy endings
In elementary school I had a best friend named Tiarra. I don’t remember how we met or why we became friends, only that she was pretty weird, and I was two years younger than everyone else in my grade, and so our pairing felt quite natural. Not that that’s how I would have conceptualized it then. We had similar interests, we role-played Warrior Cats during recess and filmed movies during sleepovers. Once, though, she said something that struck even nine-year-old me as odd. Someone had asked us, “Do you ever fight?” Tiarra responded immediately: “We’re best friends, of course we do.” Not…
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