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Andrea Herb's avatar

Might be the most moving thing I’ve ever read

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gor's avatar

thank you andrea

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Andrea Herb's avatar

I cried several times on a bus while reading it

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Ann's avatar

this reads like a soft exhale—grief, memory, and hope woven gently together.

You’ve done it again;) made grief feel like poetry and packing tape feel like a ritual.

okay ig what I'm tryna say is—

this piece is beautiful. the aching kind of beautiful. thankyou:)

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Vaishali's avatar

I felt like I picked up a novel, and read a random chapter without much context, and it still made sense, I love how you put things to words

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Vaishali's avatar

It's so beautiful to not be able to let go of things. I buried that part of me, and I hope it hurts lesser when I bring it out again

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Vaishali's avatar

Crazy true about how humans are the greatest commuicators, and the creatures with the most misunderstandings, I hope you one day find the voice and talk to her

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Vaishali's avatar

My heart aches for you, I hope you get everything you hope for

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gor's avatar

you too vaishali, you too

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wild honeysuckle's avatar

I don't even know how to compliment the complex and aching beauty of this piece, but I felt moved to my core. Your writing has such a vivid way of transporting me in the image painted, with all my senses. Deeply moving work

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shruti.'s avatar

crazy. this is SO beautiful. it hurt in all the right places, in places i thought i couldn't feel. it took me around 25 minutes to read this, just because i had to really pause in between and sob into my pillow. heart wrenching indeed. but comforting too in its own way.

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Aanya Mehta's avatar

I absolutely love the way you weave a narrative from mere words, you just let them touch the heart so deeply. Ypur words are the best thing to read during long journeys in the metro. And I relate to this so much because I also moved out from my childhood home, this is my inspiration to write my perspective on it. Thank you for sharing this!🫶

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gor's avatar

ah , someone is reading my writing in metro? it’s a dream come true!

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Exuvia's avatar

Your writing shows the stuff a narrative self is made of and hauntingly captures a grief seldom spoken of, the price of moving on.

You will never be less than three months in limbo.

Well done

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SEJAL's avatar

this was beautiful goransh

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Jyoti Ansari's avatar

You are an amazing writer and this one is the most beautiful thing I have ever read..

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Endi's avatar

The most moving line for me: “it doesn’t matter how much bigger the future is when a part of your heart still lives in a cupboard that doesn’t shut” so beautifully written. 💕So glad you shared

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gor's avatar

thank you for reading it through endi 🫶🏻

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simon pierce's avatar

I was shaking, I can’t get a hold of any of my friends. She’s the most brilliant person I know. The only capable to explain those emotions with those specific people in her own life. The picture had me ,thought maybe one of our friends had passed or a few really. Jesus. That piece will haunt me. I truly ran out of mom’s office. I couldn’t finish reading it, just kept calling one by one got a hold of one by one. It’s just you sweetheart, I’m so so sorry you’ve been going through more loss & I have not been in arms length to catch you if you collapse.

Excellent writing Gor, you actually rattled me! Even the house is so so familiar to many I spent years inside of around Ybor City. Thank you for the panic attack, it was nice to still sound like a lunatic to those who know me best <3

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Arenlea Felker's avatar

So beautiful. Thank you.

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thelma scudi's avatar

thank you

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