Hybrid Theory and Reanimation, Meteora, and A Thousand Suns;
These are some of the albums of Linkin Park released on early 2000 that was popular those days, their songs Papercut, Encore, Waiting for the End, Crawling, In the End, and who wouldn’t love the Somewhere I Belong and Numb;
Growing up, was hard especially the feeling of being isolated and different. I went through tough times during my Elementary and Highschool days Linkin Park’s songs was always there, boys in my age listen to R&B and Pop, I never hated R&B I listen to these genre’s (early 2000s). But the genre that I grew up with, that helped throughout the years was alternative rock musics.
I never knew Chester Bennington, same goes for Mike Shinoda too, I knew them as Linkin Park (the “Band”).
Depression kills faster than cancer, life is short suffering from depression makes it shorter. The feeling of unworthy, doubts, isolated, broken-hearted are some of the causes of depression.
His last song “Heavy ft.Kiiara”,
“I’m holding on, why is everything so heavy? Holding on, So much more that I can carry I keep dragging around what is bringing me down, if I just let go, I’d be set free”
The lyrics itself is heavy and full of pain and struggle hoping that the only way out is to let things go – end it.
Quoted from Chaz himself in an interview “Going through this song, everything from battling with addiction, battling with relationships, battling with family members dying, dealing with suicide attempts. Dealing with kids that are growing up. Every day seemed to bring some new stack of bullshit that I had to deal with…”
Not putting it on a pedestal, try to understand that depression will eventually get anyone that is weak to it. Depression is a poisonous mist that eats at your mind, once it gets even the slightest chance it’s over.
Human as we are, we immediately blame God for all the crap we’ve been through, forgetting that it happened in the first place because of our poor judgement and illicit decision-making without thinking things through, we suffer because of the choices we make.
I am not mad at him or hate him for doing this I love and respect Chaz, I understand how depression works. Money, love, fame, and success means nothing when depression comes around
But that doesn’t mean we should give up. That’s how the songs of Linkin Park helped me through heartaches, feel so left out and alone. It gave me hope, I screamed singing along with their song as I scream it all out of my system.
The irony for Chaz is too strong here 😦 .
A message for Chaz:
Dude,
Wherever you are hope you’ll be fine. Thank you for the songs that helped me out through my tough times, I really hope it helped you too, who’s going to scream now? who is going to shout out and still hit a perfect note, you’ve left too soon, and left in an unexpected way; you may be gone but your songs lives on, and in the End, you matter bruh!
Why so Serious? 