Our system contains Kristoph Gavin. And Vriska Serket. And Albert Wesker. And the list goes on.

The answer is, yes.

Many of us live with that feeling every day. The feeling that there is something fundamentally broken and inexcusable and unlovable at our very core.

But the secret is to just keep going.

You have to keep going.

You have to remember that there are– or there will be, or there have been and will again– people who will love you no matter how broken and terrible you are, and have been, and will be again.

You have to just keep going and trying in your own way to be a better person today than you were yesterday, and the day before that.

You have to refuse to give in to despair.

You have to remember that some people love the taste of poison.