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This is only temporary. Just remember that, this doesn’t last forever. It’s always darkest before the dawn. Rock bottom has built more heroes, millionaires, and success stories than luck and privilege ever will or have.

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While we wish that we could tell ourselves and others that we are struggling, we refuse to accept our own weaknesses. We blame our failure to launch, or our refusal to extend ourselves beyond our reach on bullshit excuses like time.

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There’s a certain stigma about being in a rut, but there’s also a certain beauty to it. Call me a pessimistic optimist, but what I see is an opportunity for growth.

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Be grateful for the unshakable bond that is your birth right. Appreciate your sisters and let them know how much you care every chance you get.

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Freud has said that our two goals in life are human connection and achievement.

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Failure is tricky. We do everything to avoid it. It is certainly better to be successful. But if you have no tolerance for failure, success is going to be difficult.

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But what stings more is receiving an absurd, wimpy excuse with a subtext that clearly reads “Thanks but no thanks, I just don’t like you, and I’m a great big wimp who is afraid to verbalize my real feelings.”

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1) Create your luck.

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We have a chance to be alive and experience things — which is probably the most under appreciated thing in the world (right in front of breakfast for dinner).

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With Facebook and Twitter, we’re able to track people’s successes and failures, the latter of which can be particularly painful to see. We are reminded everyday of where we’re at in our lives or, in many cases, where we’re not.