Those Dumb Fuckers Told Me by Eric Sparks

That pain causes growth; that suffering is experience,
but man I didn’t believe that shit, and you can believe that I never will.
I don’t mean to say that suffering doesn’t strengthen the soul, but
just because torture increases our tolerance for pain,
doesn’t mean I plan to hang myself from the thumbs.

Shit, “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,” is just something for ignorant
parents and other authoritative figures to say, when they either don’t care
or can’t fix that pain that plagues their loved ones.

Personally, in a bad situation, I’d rather hear my father say, “Eric,
sometimes life fucks us up; sometimes it grabs us by the throat and we think it will never let go. And sometimes it stops, and sometimes it doesn’t.”

See at least that seems like the truth, instead of me and everybody
that loves me pretending I’m Jesus because I managed to get myself
drug addicted, and a few months later, un-drug addicted.

Pain should be avoided; emotional, physical, even sexual probably.
And we, as a species, should never make nor cancel decisions,
using our fear as a rationale. But we, as a species, should never let ourselves
be hurt, just because it sounds poetic.