““There’s a song by Nine Inch Nails, called “Hurt.” The lyrics go like this: I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel. I focus on the pain… the only thing that’s real. It’d be really easy to dismiss this as the ramblings of a morose kid who grew up to become an idol for depressed teenagers, and that’s what most adults do. Kids do dumb shit, and as adults, it’s our job to explain away said dumb shit so that we don’t have to try to understand it. Dumb shit doesn’t require an explanation. It can simply be dismissed, because it’s dumb.””
