Loose Ends

No one ever told Cee the truth.

The truth was covered up by cultural norms, acting a certain way and doing what we were told. AKA: illusions preserved by the entitled land of Orange County. But the truth always reveals itself even if everyone can’t see it.

After the 2008 economic crisis, Cee’s dad was without a job. She moved home from college to enter the adult world of formal employment, but what she found wasn’t a place school had prepared her for or the adults had taught her to understand. It was a world without rules or morals, a safety net or sympathy. The Great Recession had erased the security of the future, the clarity of the present and the presumed truth of the past. Through trial and error, depression and anxiety, she eventually realizes that we will never know who we are if we don’t accept the detours in life and we will never be whole if we don’t engage with what we don’t want to see.