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What My Grandpa Wanted Me to Understand About Myself
When my Grandpa passed on, he left me money. My parents insisted it should go into a “family fund” for their household expenses and my brother’s tuition. I chose not to agree, and my mom reacted with frustration, telling me that I wasn’t being supportive. Feeling overwhelmed, I stepped away from the conversation. Later, my…
MISSING-DARK BOX
A young woman and a man (her boyfriend or husband) are patients at Hospital Taiping, a notorious old psychiatric hospital in Malaysia. Both are clearly mentally unstable: they laugh hysterically, scream, and behave in exaggerated, childlike ways. One day the man jumps (or is pushed) out of a high window and dies. The woman is…
(Who will move the swing)
This comic by Tum Ulit is a classic bittersweet metaphor for one-sided love / unrequited crush, told through a playground swing: First panel: A shy boy is happily swinging while the girl he likes gently pushes him from behind. He’s in his own little world, blissfully unaware. Second panel: He turns around with a big…
