A3: Overriding Intuition: The Inconvenience of Friendship

What am I doing? Not a Masters (NaM) Unit 1: The Stories I Tell Myself The Assignment Overriding Intuition – Write a story about ignoring a creative or life instinct because it seemed illegitimate, irrational, or inconvenient. The Inconvenience of Friendship Midori was sweet. Too sweet. Everyone loved her. She was talented too. Too talented. Everyone thought she would go far in life. Midori was the type of girl Kimiko had no business living with. Kimiko was shy. Too shy. No one ever talked to her. Kimiko was plain. Too plain. No one even remembered meeting her. Midori and Kimiko were paired together in the freshman dorms. Midori, sweet as she was, took Kimiko under her wing. Kimiko went to parties with Midori. They walked to classes together. Kimiko kept mostly quiet, concerned that Midori would realise that she wasn’t nice enough, wasn’t actually cool, wasn’t actually meant to be in that dorm. When Midori decided to move to Queens, Kimiko figured it was the end of their friendship.…