Life is hard for everyone. For people in third world countries and in the slums of first world countries, the reasons for their lives seeming hard are more obvious. But for more privileged groups, it 's harder to understand why they are suffering. Cherry Valance, from S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders, says, “Things are rough all over,” (122). That is a simple enough quote, but it has a deeper meaning. No matter who you are, you understand suffering and pain. There are groups of people who suffer more than others, but the idea is still the same. Some pain comes from deep down inside of us and isn’t caused by some outside force. There could be outside factors contributing to this suffering such as abuse, bullying, poverty, etc., but the pain
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Nirvana is a great example of the use of substances to “heal” oneself. In their song “Dumb” they sing “My heart is broke, but I have some glue. Help me inhale and mend it with you...” So many people feel this way and turn to drugs, alcohol, self-harm, etc., to deal with their difficulties, which in the end makes it worse. The verse continues with “We’ll float around, and hang out on clouds. Then we’ll come down and have a hangover.” The original problem is fixed, but new ones add up, which is the way it works with drugs. These things only add to the …show more content…
Things get blown out of proportion and turned into bigger deals than they are. The song “I Miss You” by Blink-182 shows that thoughts can keep you up at night and trouble you: “Where are you? And I’m so sorry. I cannot sleep. I cannot dream tonight. I need somebody and always this sick strange darkness comes creeping on, so haunting every time...” This loneliness and creeping darkness or depression, make even the most basic human functions almost impossible. The song “Car Radio” by Twenty One Pilots shows the importance of having a barrier between your thoughts and your mind such as music: “Sometimes quiet is violent… There’s no hiding for me. I’m forced to deal with what I feel. There is no distraction to mask what is real… I ponder of something terrifying ‘cause this time there’s no sound to hide behind. I find over the course of our human existence, one thing consists of consistence, and it’s that we’re all battling
Nirvana is a great example of the use of substances to “heal” oneself. In their song “Dumb” they sing “My heart is broke, but I have some glue. Help me inhale and mend it with you...” So many people feel this way and turn to drugs, alcohol, self-harm, etc., to deal with their difficulties, which in the end makes it worse. The verse continues with “We’ll float around, and hang out on clouds. Then we’ll come down and have a hangover.” The original problem is fixed, but new ones add up, which is the way it works with drugs. These things only add to the …show more content…
Things get blown out of proportion and turned into bigger deals than they are. The song “I Miss You” by Blink-182 shows that thoughts can keep you up at night and trouble you: “Where are you? And I’m so sorry. I cannot sleep. I cannot dream tonight. I need somebody and always this sick strange darkness comes creeping on, so haunting every time...” This loneliness and creeping darkness or depression, make even the most basic human functions almost impossible. The song “Car Radio” by Twenty One Pilots shows the importance of having a barrier between your thoughts and your mind such as music: “Sometimes quiet is violent… There’s no hiding for me. I’m forced to deal with what I feel. There is no distraction to mask what is real… I ponder of something terrifying ‘cause this time there’s no sound to hide behind. I find over the course of our human existence, one thing consists of consistence, and it’s that we’re all battling