We’re All Gonna Die One Day
In this chronicle of episodic events, a college student entangles himself into spiritual mischief and whimsical shenanigans as he ventures into a playground of love, alcohol, and magic. But he’s stubborn, and he clings to the eroding past, afraid of letting go of home, as he faces the genesis of a new era, a flowering of experiential knowledge: a tale that transpires during his undergraduate career in the vibrant college town of Chapel Hill at The University of North Carolina.
He grapples with a descent into anxiety, depression, and thoughts that are transgressive against his primordial notions of self-love. His sense of meaning, once intuitive and subconscious, is uprooted in a manner that attempts to extinguish his child-like effervescence. In a chaotic quest for rediscovering meaning, his introspection stitches a menagerie of bits and pieces of an answer. At times, it’s a premature synthesis of meaning, but he’s a youth hurried by the orbiting thought of life’s brevity. Despite his perplexity, he confronts life’s absurdity, gravity, beauty, and humor.
As a now recent graduate of the COVID-19 class of 2020, he blends narration and reflection in a coalescence of epiphanic struggles and triumphs. It’s a coming-of-age story, capturing an ephemeral phase between childhood and adulthood.
For a detailed description of the book and its development process, visit this blog post.
Dillon Bolding 