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Life Is Tough
… but you’re tougher. Life can be incredibly unfair. Giving up would be so easy, and no one would blame you. Please don’t. Please stay. It gets better, I promise. If you can’t find your way out of the dark, please know that you’re not alone. Please stay. Life is tough, but you’re tougher. Until next time, ~A
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Heart Work Is Hard Work
I have always considered myself as oddly optimistic. I’ve always been one to try and find ‘the good.’ In people, and just overall life in general. If I couldn’t see the good, I would try like hell to BE the good. Like somehow me pouring every single ounce of happy optimism and goodness that I had into someone, or something else, would split the difference. (Spoiler alert, it doesn’t.) In theory, it’s a fantastic way to live. In practice though? It’s complete shit. It’s also really fucking exhausting. You can’t pour from an empty cup, and you absolutely can’t pour all of your goodness into someone else hoping that you’ll…