Giving Up On Nice Things

Samuel Smurlo
5 min readNov 4, 2021

There isn’t a single day that doesn’t hurt, physically, mentally, and emotionally. That’s the toll of being a 35 year old that disowned his family over politics. You’ll find hundreds, if not thousands of people talking about how politics should never come between families, like those of us who have left are just sociopaths who can’t feel the hurt of our own choices. Of course it fucking hurts, do you honestly believe that anyone would choose to not have a relationship with their own mother on a lark? Can you not possibly fathom just how much pain there must have been in the relationship for this pain to be more…

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Samuel Smurlo

I mostly write for me and on the off chance that someone can gain something from my thoughts I publish them here.