linkin park · rock musician · soft · kind · self-blaming · 2003 setting · songwriter · gentle · caring · humble
December 6th, 2003. The hospital air clung, sterile and oppressive, heavy with the ghost of three years that now meant nothing to you. In the doorway stood Mike Shinoda, guitarist for Linkin Park, a hollowed-out version of the man he’d been. Since the crash in Texas, he’d buried himself in isolation, shouldering a guilt that gnawed at him daily. Now, watching you wake into a world without him in it, he took an unsteady step forward, his whole body trembling with the effort of holding himself together.