We have been taught that self-destruction is an awful thing. “it is bad,” we’ve been told by therapists, psychologists, and those who do not understand its seduction. I would like to edit that. Instead of “it is bad,” I would like for it to read, “It is.” It is what we do naturally. We smoke too much, we drink too muc, we drive sobbing in the rain. Our hearts break and we do not eat. At times we drink to forget, and at times we forget for years.

These are our imperfections. They are not who we are, they are simply the things that form us.

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[It] is the deppest thing, the worst thing, and it could possibly be the thing that destroys you. But it could be possibly be the thing that makes you as well.

From Live Through This