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We feed ourselves the narrative that people won’t stay. And don’t get me wrong—plenty won’t. But there are some who will. And are you going to allow those people to slip by you because you’ve conditioned yourself to believe it isn’t possible?

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Oh, and reality check: it’s actually work.

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It seems with news there is always a negative judgment whether it be labeled corrupt, falsified, exaggerated, or bias. But, when it’s pushed on social media, the biggest problem is that it’s out of place.

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It’s time to encourage and bring one another up and there is no tolerance for anything less.

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I think a lot about deleting social media. It’s a fantasy of mine — I imagine the thrill of watching a decade of posts disappear, permanently deleted, and with it all of the nerves pitted in my stomach like rocks.

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Please, we’re so bored that we are watching stories of people we don’t even care about.

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Cicada 3001 has been called “the most elaborate and mysterious puzzle of the internet age.” The Washington Post ranked it as one of the “top 5 eeriest, unsolved mysteries of the internet.” Six years after the elaborate cryptographic puzzle contest first launched, it still seems that no one except the person(s) who started it know(s) what it even meant—if it meant anything at all.

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My sphere of connections was limited to them and my two closest friends.

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We’ve expanded our rationale to the growing levels of casual that have become the standard for what relationships are today. 

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Heal your heart with traditional, old-school pre-Internet ways.