I thoroughly enjoy melancholy I know it is the cliched artist in me but that's okay perhaps its a cliche for a reason (which has coincidentally become a cliche as well) I have recently re-acquired a working album of Lauryn Hill's "Miseducation of. . . " and it brings me back to a younger, probably generally sadder, me. Althought perhaps it came from a more self-absorbed place, it feels like I had a lot to be sad about then. I guess it could be considered 'normal' teenage stuff, but I think regardless of how many people went through a similar thing, it doesn't mean that we should be very nonchalant about it and just consider it something that is to be expected. I think a lot of the 'truths' people learn come from a real harm inflicted upon them, whether intentional or non-intentional. Take for example: that's just the way life is nothing comes for free the only person you can trust is yourself if somebody does something for you, they want somet...