Sebastian Junger
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Just this brilliant riff that had never been heard before, would never be heard again.
And it just flowed through him.
But he was, you know, life... I mean, as a teenager, he...
He said to his mom, he said, I know eventually I'm going to kill myself.
He knew that as a teenager.
And he held it off a long time.
He had a family, two little girls, and he was like— He killed himself while his girls were young?
And, you know, of course it's hard not to say, John, what the fuck?
Like, are you kidding?
But then I realized, no, no, no, that just shows how much pain he was in.
They can't take it, and they're worried what they're going to do with that pain.
Are they a threat to their family?
Can they trust themselves?
I think they start to worry about that.
There's an amazing story, not that I know that this was where John was at, but it could have been.
There's an amazing story from the Iliad and the Odyssey of Ajax, Iax, who threw himself on his sword, right?