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“Suddenly all the dreams we were given are crashing down around us.”

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I hope you know that feeling afraid and overwhelmed is a normal part of being human. It doesn’t make you weak, it doesn’t mean you aren’t capable; all it means is that you are a human being with thoughts, feelings, and emotions.

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It’s the dreams you never had the courage to follow, it’s the lies you tell yourself as an adult.

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“It’s a strange moment when you realize that you don’t want to be alive anymore.”

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But if you really want to disappear, you will find a way. People always do. You can’t make someone participate in a life they didn’t want to begin with. They have to do it for themselves.

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‘Melancholy’ is in and of itself a fascinating word. Visually, at least, it could be like a homophone of ‘symphony’, as in an assemblage of beautiful instruments, as it ends in the same sometimes-vowel and contains the same orchestra of consonant blends, the sort that migrate softly from the wet and rarely-used places of the tongue…