Deep Calls to Deep: My Friends of Misery

As a 17-year-old, I did not know that I could do anything else with my pain than live out of it and transmit it. 

As a result, my wound festered. 

Rather than attend to the infection, I ignored it and allowed it to become more toxic. 

Metallica joined me there, though. They seemed to understand what I was feeling. James Hetfield sympathetically sang the song, My Friend of Misery, to me at least a hundred times a day. While he allowed me to join his angry refrain, I completely missed the...