Living with Memories of Suffering

Accepting, Mourning, and maybe even being grateful

Photo by Ashe Walker on Unsplash

This evening while doing the dishes I was listening to a old Arcade Fire song. There was a period of my life 16 years ago when I listened to Arcade Fire religiously. Non-stop. Every album, single, EP, B-side—everything. And it was also a period of (mostly) untreated OCD (on average, it takes 10 years from onset of OCD to …