A first-person reflection by Aaron 'Tex' Finnin about unresolved grief after his brother’s death from an oxycontin overdose and how confronting those emotions (after stopping touring) was necessary to reclaim meaning, healing, and a sense of wholeness in life.
I really think it goes back to when my brother died. My brother overdosed on oxycontin. And that was a whole. I watched that unfold, and there was a lot of intense emotions in that whole family dynamic. I never dealt with my brother's death after that. I was still touring, doing. Just running, just going. And those emotions of losing. So when you stopped, you got hit by a truck. I got hit by a truck. 18 wheeler with a train behind it. Those emotions and those kind of. Those things, really, I had to face them. I had to face them to become. To get back to feeling that life was, like, worth living. That there was this beauty aspect that, oh, I'm a whole person, and I have a lot to give the world, as opposed to just kind of riding through the world.
