“From when we were young, from a time before we were burdened with jobs and responsibilities and the weight of the world. Because you do grow up and you see the ugliness of things. You read about the atrocities of today and yesterday, and you either internalize and encapsulate your past experiences, become an unrelenting, rigid, product of them, or you realize it’s all just a fucked-up happenstance gone astray, and it always has been. That human existence is less than a dust mote in the cosmic scale of the universe, but then we developed thought, emotion, introspection, and so we stress, we suffer, truly suffer, as only a human can.”