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When you're young, it becomes drilled into you to be who you are and never let anyone get in the way. As you get older, you'll find that it's all a lie. The new mantra becomes "Be normal." "Fit in." "Do as society tells you." To be yourself may go against general opinion, thus making you public enemy number one... ...Along with all the others. So you do what any smart and reasonable person would do... You bury yourself. You dig a hole and lie in your coffin, waiting for the lid to be closed by someone who's opinion you used to be taught would never matter. And as you allow the weight of the earth to crush you into oblivion, you ask

Walk through the shredded storm guard and cracked wooden door. Turn on the broken light and sit in its dark shadow. Wait. Wait. Tick... Tock... Tick... Tock... A bell tolls somewhere in the downtrodden house, that's been brushed off as worthless, to signify another passing hour alone. The gin and whiskey are wearing off again. What to do... What to do... The suffocating smell of gasoline drenched hopes and burning dreams fill the little home that nobody cares to look twice at. Let it overcome your every sense. Feel the heat of your numerous failures wash through you. Wait... Wait... There it is. The familiar feeling of num