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I Am A Child Of Cosmopolitan Culture, Have Been Traumatized By Supermodels And Too Many Quizzes And Know That Neither My Personality Nor My Body Is Up To It If Left To Its Own Devices. I Can't Take The Pressure.

Bridget [jones] Was Always, At Heart, About The Gap Between How You Feel You're Expected To Be And How You Actually Are And That Gap Has Only Widened. Young People Now Are Entering An Uncharted Sea, Where There's Huge Pressure To Judge Yourself On How Many Likes Or Followers You Get On Facebook, Twitter, Or Instagram, Rather Than The On Important Things Like Being Kind, Honest, Resilient, Funny And A Good Friend.

When Someone Leaves You, Apart From Missing Them, Apart From The Fact That The Whole Little World You've Created Together Collapses, And That Everything You See Or Do Reminds You Of Them, The Worst Is The Thought That They Tried You Out And, In The End, The Whole Sum Of Parts Adds Up To You Got Stamped Reject By The One You Love. How Can You Not Be Left With The Personal Confidence Of A Passed Over British Rail Sandwich?

9p.m. My Flat. Feel Very Strange And Empty. Is All Very Well Thinking Everything Is Going To Be Different When You Come Back But Then It Is All The Same. Suppose I Have To Make It Different. But What Am I Going To Do With My Life? I Know. Will Eat Some Cheese.

Of Course The Chronology Of The Books Is A Bit Back- To - Front, And Books Usually Come Out Before Movies. But Happily, These [bridget Jones's] Are Fictional Comedy Diaries - Not A History Of The Battle Of Waterloo.