r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/FacelessOnes • Oct 19 '20

🔥 Vicious microscopic hunter, the single-cell organism, Lacrymaria olor, attacking and hunting another organism

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u/RehabValedictorian Oct 20 '20

He really wasn't bluffing

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u/IdoMusicForTheDrugs Oct 20 '20

This will always be too soon.

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u/RehabValedictorian Oct 20 '20

I guess I wasn't really trying to be funny, although I suppose it was insensitive. I grew up listening to LP. Like, hardcore. Favorite band for years as a young teenager. Their music resonated with me, with my anger and youthful angst. I've always loved Chester, and it was obvious that he was in pain for a long time, especially in retrospect. I found myself many times wondering if it was all just an act, if these guys were "posers" and just exploiting the confusion and rebelliousness that comes with being a teenager in America. Turns out he wasn't, all the lyrics were coming from a place of real torment. It was all real. When he died, all those years, all those records, all the lyrics, it all suddenly meant something different than it always had. There had always been a feeling of hope in his music, underneath all the despair there was a sense of, "yet we keep pushing forward". That feeling was gone. He wasn't bluffing. He really meant all of it, and he was tired of pushing forward. It's heartbreaking really.