We were the smart, depressed, outcast, under-achieving computer geeks that did lots of drugs. We would be in honors calculus by day and snorting lines of prescription meds by night. It was a very self-destructive time in my life and the beginning of my crippling depression.
But we were all really close. We sort of used our friendships as coping mechanisms for the existential angst and emotional troubles we were experiencing. The times I had with my friends were my saving grace, but I just wish I knew at the time that two of them wouldn't survive to see past 27.
But we were all really close. We sort of used our friendships as coping mechanisms for the existential angst and emotional troubles we were experiencing. The times I had with my friends were my saving grace, but I just wish I knew at the time that two of them wouldn't survive to see past 27.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell