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He tried to tell me so many times, but I wasn’t trying to hear it. I wanted what I wanted.

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I’m not impressed by the fancy clothes you wear, I’m impressed by how you wear your heart on your sleeve. I’m not impressed by the expensive watch you’re wearing, I’m impressed by how time flies by when we’re together.

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Not even the nicest of homes nor the most stunning ocean view
can distract my mind from what it wants, what it misses.

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It’s become so easy for us to take these superficial quantities as benchmarks for measuring our own lives, to gauge where exactly we fall on every spectrum. How successful, smart, rich, happy, loved, respected, accomplished, talented we are.