Everyone I know goes away in the end. – “Hurt” by Nine Inch Nails/Johnny Cash
Compared to people who have had severely traumatic childhoods such as having been orphaned, or having experienced physical/sexual abuse, my childhood was a walk in the park. Although my parents stayed together and I was never truly physically harmed (except for some school bullying), the psychological challenges I faced were filled with enough loneliness, alienation, and abandonment that forced me to understand early in life that this was a mean, cruel world. Continue reading
