Awkwardly Introverted

Sometimes, the real world feels so overwhelming that the only way to cope is to dive headfirst into a book. Not just any book, though—dystopian fiction, where nightmare scenarios play out in vivid detail, oddly comforting in their exaggeration... or are they? 🤎🤔 Lately, two books have hit a little too close to home: 1984 by George Orwell and The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. Let’s start with 1984, the classic story where “Big Brother is watching” has become more than just a cautionary tale. 👁️ Surveillance, censorship, and rewriting history? ✔️✔️✔️ The line between fiction and reality gets blurrier every day. Orwell warned us about this chilling world, and yet here we are, scrolling through news feeds 📱, questioning what's real, and feeling like our privacy is a thing of the past. 🧑🏾‍💻 Then there’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Once a disturbing fictional world, it now reads like a potential future. 🚫👩🏻‍🦰👩🏼‍🦰👩🏽‍🦰👩🏿‍🦰👩🏾‍🦰 Women’s rights are under attack, people a...