I really like the author’s figurative language. For example the author says ” I noted that there was light in one direction and darkness in another and deduced that the dark was the depths and the light was not.” I think the author talks about their mental battles and struggling to find the positives, when they’re mind is all over the place. I also love how the author makes connections with drowning in their mind but my favorite part is when the author adds the positive. The line “And when I came up, breaking through dark water and into the diorama of the world-storm clouds hung by unseen thread, a red sun pinned low against them, and beneath that sura, hills dusted with grass-I looked back at the stone bridge, which must have been, my god, a half a mile away.” It feels like a break through has happened and they finally found how to live instead of being in their heads.