When I have moments of darkness I feel the urge to cut out aspects of my life that are causing me distress. Over the years this happened many times. When you also escape into drugs it happens even more often, because if you are already inclined to escape reality due to humanity’s lack of answers you also begin to erase certain emotions and embed others into the core you consider “You”.
People think they have all the answers and if they don’t the question has not one. When you view an optical illusion your brain fills in the blanks and you assume incorrectly how the scene you are perceiving is. (*Examples*) We do this too for more ephemeral things too: predictions, beliefs, hopes. Ask any scientist to predict the future with exact certainty and if they are ethical and egoless as demanded of their profession they will speak to you of the inability to measure and calculate together all forces involved in . . . anything.
But ask any Joe Schmo on the street what the cause of this or that is? What their opinion of this person or that thing is (*cough* President) and they are able to suddenly speak in absolutes. They are able