The distinction between nostalgia and missing is highlighted, where nostalgia is linked to romanticizing the simplicity and purity of the past, mainly associated with one's Teenhood. Missing, on the other hand, is connected to a yearning for elements like community, care, and responsibility that were present in a specific environment, such as the author's experience in a teenage editorial setting. The author reflects on trying to recreate or rediscover these aspects in different ways, recognizing their rarity and impact on personal resonance.
Tavi Gevinson is a writer, actor, and the founder of Rookie. Her new zine is Fan Fiction.
“Stories are unstable, and memory is unstable, and identity is unstable. All of these things that I've tried to make permanent in writing, they're actually unstable. So even though it's tempting to go, Oh, that was fake, it's more like, No, it was just temporary.”
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