Originally Posted by Exoskeletal

Mom gets cancer? Check.
Brother is a heroin addict? Check.
Brother steals money from my family? Check.
Longtime girlfriend and I break up? Check.
Brother gets arrested for making terrorist threats? Check.
Dad suffers from severe depression and bouts of alcoholism? Check
Friend from high school OD's on heroin? Check.
Grandfather dies? Check.
Grandmother gets the sh*t beat out of her, her house taken away from her, and her personal belongings stolen by scum of the earth? Check.

I'm honestly surprised I haven't killed somebody/myself yet. I thank my mother every day for inheriting her ability to forge through unimaginable stress. I also have amazing friends in my life, including people on this message board. Sorry, I don't mean to be attention whoring. It's just crazy what this year has been. I'm going to be celebrating on New Years Eve that this year is finally over instead of celebrating the new one.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.