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As the sun sets on this heart-wrenching year and regret for the life you left behind may settle in your heart, I hope you remember that you’ve achieved the sweetest victory.

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But today, you are supposed to be alive.

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Oxygen is pumping through your lungs and your heart is beating through your chest. You have the amazing ability to see the sun and feel the cool air on your skin. 

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We must dance, and move and stretch and run and fall into the knowingness that we are alive. Sometimes we forget this.

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you are doing just fine. you are everything you need to be at all infinite points on a compass.

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The best way to change the world is to keep improving yourself. The only thing you truly have an effect on.

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Your memory rests in the shadows of my collarbone; you are dabbed like perfume
Behind the lobes of my ear, in the creases of my elbows, at the base of my neck.

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So often we blame our shitty lives on the things we willingly fill it with—our friends, our careers, our hobbies. Check your reasoning, why aren’t you trying new things?

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Living, and being alive, is realizing that you, and everyone else around you, have one thing in common.

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“Hang on,” I’ll bet you’re thinking. “These things beat The Internet? Like, why? You’re on it right now! I’m on it right now! We all are!”