romance

  • 24. The romanticisation of suffering.

    24. The romanticisation of suffering.

    TW: Self harm. Something that’s been on my mind for a while, is how struggle is poised as romantic. The idea of being troubled is glorified through all kinds of media – music, film, books etc. To impressionable, underdeveloped minds, seeing this is damaging as it forges a distortion of reality – aesthetically encouraging…