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We have to get up, wipe away the tears, and do whatever it takes to make our lives what we want them to be.

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Finding joy in the day to day isn’t about living a nomadic lifestyle or wearing the fancy clothes at your boozy Tuesday afternoon brunch or having all the plastic things and never once feeling empty. 

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Filling your mind with positive thoughts and dealing with people with compassion and love does lead to real physical changes in your body.

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Through change, we discover who we are and our potential to be more than we previously were.

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I’m also grateful for a lot of other shit, too. The kind of things that define my day to day on a more granular level.

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Words—one of the many mysteries of life.

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I want to wake up in the morning next to the person I love. I want to walk the streets at midnight talking about random stuff and laughing at every funny and corny joke we throw at each other.

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Why has happiness turned into something larger? Why is there this common and often heavy expectation that we should be experiencing this feeling more often than not?

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Once you realize that the constant seeking and ruminating of the mind is never ending, you come to see that life happens in the in-betweens.

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After years of this vicious cycle and experiencing my worst bout of depression, I realized things needed to change; my current way of living clearly wasn’t working.