“Beautiful Dysfunctionality”
by Haley McLeod “The Cloudy Knight” (Cameroon 2013-15) • We call it “falling in love” for a reason. “Falling” because it is unexpected, perhaps with an entity previously unknown. “In” because you were previously “out.” The majority of us speak of “falling in love” within the context of loving a person, usually with a romantic, mushy-gushy sort of undertone. But let us focus less on the love, and more on the process of “falling in.” Have you ever encountered a place, a person, a culture – any entity, really – that is so foreign, so odd, that you could never imagine liking it, much less loving it? It is a journey of transformation: from unknowing, to knowing but hating, to accepting, to liking, to loving. And finally, you finish by embracing this entity in its entirety, with all of its flaws, and all of its beauty. This story is . . .
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