A short first-person monologue by James Laughlin reflecting on childhood trauma, addiction, abuse, regret, and overthinking. The speaker acknowledges waking up hungover, choosing to accept risk, and notes that regret can hurt more than failure, suggesting common struggles with getting 'stuck' in overthinking.
I came out of my childhood, there was lots of trauma. There was addiction and abuse. I wanted to survive. That's the messy stuff. Oh, man, I sound really negative. I woke up and I was pretty hungover. I'm making an active decision to accept the risk. It was selfish. Regret hurts more than failure. Every day of the week we get in this place of stuckness because we're overthinking it. I think the thing that I wish I'd known and a lot of other people struggle with is just.
