“I’m not convinced we’re brought up to deal with our problems. Mostly we just distract ourselves when something tough comes up.
Giving your kids stuff to make up for not having time to talk to them can have serious consequences. Some turn to drugs, gangs, street life, and some find less destructive ways of dealing with it…[most distractions] keep you from having to fix your problems. Avoid them long enough, though, and you never end up living an honest life. At some point, you just got to stop distracting yourself and deal with what’s really bugging you…
When you’re young, you are given something good to distract from something bad. Then we grow up. Hard to say exactly when that happens, but it happens. And distractions? Seem harder to come by.”
~Painkiller Jane from 4/20/07 ‘Toy Soldiers’ episode.
