Back then it wasn't so much that I wanted to feel pain, as I wanted to feel something else.
Sitting in the middle of class now with no tools, I could almost be that freshman again. I wonder sometimes if I'd been around different people, if things would have played out differently. Sometimes I decide yes, it would have been different, I am in control of my own shit, and other times I give up and blame God or something.
He asks me how he never noticed in three years. I tell him I used to play piano, too.