The piece is both a love-letter to those times, and to the author's strongest influences (hence the title of the piece). His father seems incredibly kind, thoughtful, and supportive. It must have been incredibly difficult to reconcile this with the fact that he chose to live separately, alone, thousands of miles away.
As algorithms and AIs start to dominate our entertainment and curation, and as major publications struggle to adapt to this climate, it feels rarer and rarer for a piece to capture the Human Experience. This one did. It felt True. Whether you derive any value from it is up to you. But I assure you the value is there. The best stories are written from experience, and an autobiographical account is as close to the experience as you can be. And this one is fantastically written.
I know I digressed, I apologize.
I felt this human's story. Touching indeed. But I feel like this was something that HN wouldn't have liked. This was a nice essay but I'm still unsure how it got to the front page. (( Please comment, why did you upvote ? ))
I honestly expected some kind of connection with the title and the story. But there really wasn't. Okay, yeah they talked about Cobain's death, life but did it actually have anything to do with his dad ?
On another note, I feel the writer. Not having a purpose, that's how I feel right now. One could say that I became slightly HN-popular. Even got several internship offers and I worked for two and a half months. But I barely felt like any of the work I was doing actually served a purpose.
I feel lost, this was a good perspective on life stories. But is this just entertainment or do I get any value from it ? Is this just like Netflix and Prime movies and shows that are so far from my own reality that I'm absorbed into it and I feel like I become a part of it and I aspire to some of their values.
I also like writing, I feel like software engineering programming as a job isn't for me.
edit: spelling.