Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-10581381-20170821104040/@comment-28396600-20180928160350

As much as I love the John Mellencamp album Life, Death, Love, and Freedom, it came out during the wrong time in my life. The point of the album was that all the songs were about death in one way or another, during the time that album was released my mom had suffered from a severe heart attack and she had to stay in the hospital for at least a couple of weeks. Hearing John sing about death in all those songs made me paranoid about losing her and crushed virtually all the positivity about her hopefully healing in my mind, turning that positivity into pure anxiety and fear. This year the album is now 10 years old and while my mom has thankfully been healed, hearing those songs triggers those memories of the first time in my life that I had ever been paranoid about losing a loved one. The first time that in my otherwise happy life, I couldn't even go to bed at night without stressfully fearing what could happen tomorrow whereas before a new day was always thought od as an exciting new adventure to me,