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Perspective Switching - based on the Absoutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

  • Feb 18, 2023
  • 2 min read

Updated: Mar 26, 2023


WHAT?! I hope I just misheard, I must have just misheard, he would never do something like that, he can't just leave me like that, he is my best friend. Can he? Was it all just a lie? Were those 14 years a lie?! I'm so angry I could..., I want to..., no I have to hit something. So, I punched him, I just punched my best friend, but.... like... how could he do something like that to me?! HOW?! I have to get out of here, anywhere just get out. So, I left. I thought...I thought...I don't know what I thought, apparently everyone I like leaves me. EVERYONE! I was really hoping he would be different, but NO! They are all the same after all, my damn father, my damn pathetic mother and now Jun.... I don't even want to think of his name. They are all pathetic, some more and some less but actually they are all the same. And now he has finally proven this to me, I had hoped I would be wrong, and I had hoped that he would never do something like this to me that he would never leave me alone in this desolate, ugly reservation! I had hoped so much, but as you can clearly see here there is no point in having hope. He said we would be there forever and he said that he would never leave me in the lurch, but well, words are still just stupid, pretty, useless words. While I was wallowing in my good-for-nothing self-pity, I wasn't even paying attention to where I was walking and bam! My head banged on a pole with the sign "REZ". Sh*t! I didn't even realize I had run that far. This f*cking pole! I took it in a headlock and hung on it tight enough to pull it to the ground with me and bent it. I was so frustrated and angry that I twisted this stupid sign with my bare hands. After it was reasonably illegible and met my expectations of a well demolished sign, I laid down next to my new acquisition and exhaled. "Rowdy, I will never leave you", "Rowdy we will always be best friends". Yeah right! Out of sheer desperation, I started crying now too. Great! I turned on my side and pulled the sign towards me, clutched it tightly and let the tears run free.




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