[quote=Wayne]
My family just recently decided that after 6 years of constantly being on different medications and all of them only complicating things, I'm going to go medication-free. Hence why this really struck me hard, because I struggle with depression. As a lot of people do.Sometimes people manage their depression, and other times... shit like this happens. Fuck... I don't know. Knowing that someone this beloved and successful would take their own life. It really hits me hard, right into the deepest parts of my soul.I don't know what else to say. I've got nothing else to say. There is nothing else to say.
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This man struggled with depression, cocaine and alcohol addictions, and more. He lived to be over 60 years old. 60. That's a pretty solid run for a human. And you know what he did in those 60 years? Inspired millions, touched the hearts of children everywhere and made people laugh. He struggled with some of the toughest shit a human being can experience, and survived sixty years of it. All the while making untold numbers of people laugh, smile, cry, and feel inspired. Inspired to make others laugh and smile and feel.

This fellow spread the gift of fire that Prometheus, God, Evolution, or whatever it is you believe to many people. While enduring torture for 60 years. This guy accomplished more in 60 years than ten people do in 100. Each.

Despite his death, nothing will defeat his accomplishments. Nothing will remove his films, or the positive memories you have of him. And if that goofball ex-cocaine addict could manage all that he did, so can you, and your family will have your back through it all. And so will Robin's shadow in all the things he left behind, for everyone.

So take that to heart at least. Yeah, he is dead. And you know what? Lived past 60 and did really awesome shit with his life. In my mind, he made it. You will too. It'll be hard, sure, ain't nobody meaningful gonna deny that. But you can. That's all that matters.

And that's that I suppose. Buck up my fellow unstable fellow, you will make it. So will I. And if you fall down, don't worry, we all do, many times. Just get back up. As best you can.