[TO BE PUBLISHED UNDER 8LETTERS]
❝Are you doing well?❞
A very simple question,
but hard to answer.
Melancholia is a collection of haiku that echoes the sentiments of the young generation today, who have silently fought hard lately in order to surviv...
I created a villain out from my desired character—myself.
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❝AND THEY LIVED happily ever after,❞ all these fairytales said at the end of the story, but mine had a different ending when I became the villain of my own story.
I am always the center of the stories I tell others; if I am not the hero, maybe I am the victim or the protagonist who needs saving. However, being the side character is never my thing, especially being the most hated villain of the story. Well, maybe I am just an unnecessary side character or the villain, but these stories are not from mine, knowing I can never control what people think about me. Hence, becoming a villain did not ever cross my mind, but I became one due to the anxiety that life brought upon me.
Am I bad now? Maybe not, but it depends on the story.
❝A villain is a product of society's cruelness,❞ they say, and here I am, the product of my own anxiety that consistently stops myself from becoming happy.
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