Hope is there! Hope is there to heal Mia.
The story is short with kind of open ended ending but the ending tells us volumes. Mia had to take certain steps to heal, she had to reconcile with her loved ones in order to heal. Maybe even without asking question because humans a social creature even with our undeniable thirst for privacy and independence. One needs help, and you feel that one person is hurting, reach out and just be there. This story is a great example of how much a human being cannot cope with depression alone. Now Hope’s only way of helping Mia is from a far, with the help of her boyfriend who I must admit was the most toxic person in the story (you have to read the novel to see). She is left alone most of the days as her grandma tends to travel a lot and it seems simply gave on her (though she is taking care of her on the papers). She is dealing with self-harm as she feels the most when she inflicts pain onto herself. Her only friend and anchor Hope (I love that name and the things she symbolizes in the story) could not help her anymore as Mia simply closed off her emotions. She succumbed to darkness and separated herself from her own feelings. Mia lost her parents and she broke inside. It takes time to heal and let other people back into our lives as the process of grievance is a deeply personal process. We lost people we love and had our share of grievance and eventually acceptance. The process of coping with the loss is not foreign concept for any of us. To be honest, this is not my regular genre but I found this read deeply emotional and relatable.
This novella is about a loss and grief, about the healthy and unhealthy ways of coping with your anguish and how a person should first l forgive themselves for them to accept help from the others. Not Yours But Forever is a novella written by Ruth Morse who was kind enough to send me an e-arc of this beauty to read and review. only when you accept yourself can you accept anyone else. You can’t replace yourself with another person, you can fill that gap inside you with someone else’s feelings.
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