“You feel closer to people on movie screens. Yeah, I think I know you. You spend a lot of time daydreaming and people have made comment to that effect, telling you that you’re “self-involved” and “self-centered” but they don’t know, do they? About the long nightshifts alone, about the years of keeping yourself company. All the nights you wrapped your arms around yourself so you could imagine someone holding you. The hours of indecision, self-doubt, the intense depression the blinding hate, the rage that made you stagger, the devastation of rejection. Well maybe they do know but if they do they sure do a good job of hiding it. It astounds you how they can be so smooth, how they seem to pass through life as if life itself was some divine gift and it infuriates you to watch yourself with your apparent skill, and finding every way possible to screw it up. for you life is a long trip, terrifying and wonderful. Birds sing to you at night, the rain and the sun, the changing seasons are true friends. Solitude is a hard won ally, faithful and patient. Yeah, I think I know you”
-Henry Rollins -Black Coffee Blues
