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Taurus: Feeling like a backup friend. Never getting invited out with groups. Watching everyone have fun on their Instagram stories without you.

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Sometimes, no amount of pep talks or forehead kisses or surprise presents are going to make them feel better.

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Maybe they acted like your pain was more of a burden than anything else. Maybe they acted like they didn’t want to hear it.

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She is either mentally or physically exhausted. She is either depressed or numb. She is either on the verge of breaking into tears or on the verge of screaming out her lungs. 

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Yes, it is okay to feel blue without a reason. Even when everything is going okay — you sent in your assignment on time, your parents love you, your boyfriend or girlfriend gets you, you are the luckiest person alive — even then it is okay to feel sad.

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It’s okay if you have no one to text about what’s wrong, no one that would understand what you’re going through.

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See, for some people, the holidays remind them — of the people who left, of the choices they made over the last year, of the mistakes they walked into. For some people, the holidays remind them that they will have to live another year without their father, without their mother.

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The entire day, you’re tired. Not physically. Mentally. And that’s the worst kind of tired, because sleep doesn’t cure it. Even if you get a full eight hours, you still feel exhausted. Like you want to slip back into unconsciousness.