This Is Actually Happening
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What if you were a nurse for hardened criminals?
When you're looking for a sign, you reach a point, and when you're ready you'll take anything as a sign. And I reached that point. Music: Irsen's Tale - Kai Engel
What if your mom kicked you out on the streets?
I still smile, I still laugh...because I feel like nothing's gonna knock me out. Music: Phylotaxis - Squirm Orchestra
What if your step-child was kidnapped?
Still to this day I question, because what mercy is there in that? Music: Water - Johannes Welsch
What if your mom had Paranoid Personality Disorder?
Your family becomes normal no matter how weird it is. Music: Snow Capture- Nasienie
What if you had a psychotic break at age 17?
I was this other person...and what I saw my real me as is the person I used to be and it would sneak up on me and see what I was doing behind my back. Music: Bliss Out - Nasienie
What if you were a white school principal in 1968?
Nothing I learned at University taught me how to handle this kind of situation, or any of us who were there. Music: Not for Nothing - Dan Gross
What if you suffered from Tourette's Syndrome?
I just felt like my brain told me that I had to do it. Music: Bliss Out - Nasienie
What if you were hanging off a 600 foot waterfall?
It could just be over, all of a sudden, in a second. Music: To Speak of Solitude - Brambles
What if you were given 48 hours to live?
I'm just so clear that nothing else is promised, other than right now. Music: Cat Wearing Glasses - Lee Rosevere
What if you were a Blood Sorcerer?
I woke up and I was just like, wait a second, I feel whole again. Music: Irsen's Tale - Kai Engel
What if your dad died on your 10th birthday?
It's always going to put me in a strange place...A place I can't articulate. Music: Not for Nothing - Dan Gross
What if you learned to swim at age 43?
It was a huge revelation...It was what we call the 'Aha' moment. Music: Rain Makes Rain - Tardiss
What if you got a job transporting dead bodies?
How the fuck did I get here? Music: However Dark It Be - Nasienie
What if your dad wasn't your real dad?
I was always semi-conscious that, okay, I'm gonna play this off...but deep inside, I don't really belong here. Music: Let Down - Genie Love (Radiohead Cover)
What if you spent 4 years in solitary confinement?
After crossing that line, hope was born in me. And this would make all the difference in the world. Union Flow - Spuntic
What if you didn't believe in belief itself?
If you really want something to be true, that's when you have to question it. Music: Ultra Deep Field - Stellardrone
What if you quit your job and lived on garbage?
It's pretty liberating...just saying 'fuck it' Music: Rubbish Hummingbird - LuWorm
What if you had your first kiss at at age 27?
If I had chosen to participate in my life a decade earlier, I would be a completely different person than I am now. Music: Snow Capture - Nasienie
What if you lost your sense of smell?
For the first time this year...I smelled a person, for one day. Music: Progression - Jessica Styler
What if you weren't afraid to die?
Oh no, I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of living. Music: Tibetan Ohm Chant
What if you worked in a remote African hospital?
It again became clear that I didn't know what I was talking about. Music: Rain Makes Rain - Tardiss
What if your mother died on Christmas Day?
When life suddenly throws something at you like that...Now I'll believe anything. You tell me anything, I'll be like 'sure, why not.' Music: To Speak of Solitude - Brambles
What if you used to speak in tongues?
I want to understand my own brain. Music: Irsen's Tale - Kai Engel
What if you were an alcoholic at age 9?
The one that wins is the one you feed the most Music: Water - Johannes Welsch
What if your boyfriend lit himself on fire?
We're still here. What part are we playing in all this? Music: Cat Wearing Glasses - Lee Rosevere