It was many years ago, but the pain of my divorce is like a scabbed cut on my arm that I bump from time to time, it breaks open and hurts so bad, and never quite heals and scars over. In Kafka'a The Metamorphosis, Gregor is changed into a giant bug, and his family slowly changes in their attitudes and behaviors toward him and themselves.
Supposedly, this story is classic "must read" literature. When my wife left me and took my son, I felt like I was not human, I could not speak intelligently to people, and I felt like I should just find a dark corner and hide most of the time. Gregor eventually became a non-factor to his family, and they went on without him. That is how I felt after my divorce.
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