Post call is a strange time. I’m excited about going home to bond with my pillow but I’m just lucid and loopy enough to have philosophical and emotional breakthroughs. “Somewhere between psychotic and iconic”. This is the sequel to Science and Faith.
As I approach the end of my first month as a community service officer (COSMO), it’s time to close chapters and look forward. I used to hear ex-Bara interns talking about this place that had put them through so much with such fondness. I still think there’s an element of legitimate Stockholm Syndrome there but some wonderful friendships were formed that I am unlikely to forget:
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The strangest things become fond memories when the whole experience is completely bonkers. To those new to Bara Snapshots: this is my solid attempt at reflection, trying to make sense of my tumultuous (oddly magical) years as an intern through a series of jumbled snapshots.
This front line thing is heavy. If I could do it again, I’d enlist a therapist from day one. It’s like a front row seat to a slow motion fall.
We all start as relatively normal people with initially very normal reactions to decidedly abnormal stuff. Here, I try to map those changes through a series of snapshots to try make sense of it all.
Collaborative Eavesdropping 