In his suicide note, Kurt Cobain wrote, "It's better to burn out than to fade away." He was quoting a Neil Young song about Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols. When I was twenty-four, I interviewed John Lennon. I asked him about this sentiment, one that pervades rock and roll. He took strong, outraged exception to it. "It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out, " he said. "I worship people who survive. I'll take the living and the healthy.
David SheffTags: inspirational
How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.
David SheffI didn't cause it. I can't control it. I can't cure it.
David SheffTags: beautiful-boy
I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems.
David SheffTags: family
Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully...There are millions of treacherous moments.
David SheffI know there is no point in haranguing him because he will just shut down, but I want to cover every angle.
David SheffJasper, who is six, is the only one of us who responds appropriately. He wails, inconsolable for an hour.
David SheffWhy does it help to read others' stories? It is not only that misery loves company, because (I learned) misery is too self-absorbed to want much company. Others' experiences did help with my emotional struggle...
David SheffThrough Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything....I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate things once unthinkable. The rationalizations escalate....It's only marijuana. He gets high only on weekends. At least he's not using hard drugs....
David SheffHow can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?
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