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Mostly my inner monologues

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You’ll be my finest creation yet

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Wait for me. I’ll sculpt you a home worthy of your divinity

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Absurdism

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Still not enough.

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I want more. I need more.

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Even more.

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Vessel

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For some reason, there’s peace for me in that

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I am sure I am the villain for someone. Maybe a few

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What if all I did was build more walls?

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Happy birthday to my crown. Here’s to the many years we’ve got ahead

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Can you see my monster?

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As my focus shifted from others’ feelings to mine, I traded off what I was once very good at: the ability to empathize. I no longer feel I understand people the way I used to. I no longer feel the connections I used to have with them

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All my life I believed emotional maturity to be the ability to withhold and suppress: to not react based on emotions, and ignore them till they die down

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Since my latest enlightenment, I began to let out my emotions little by little. It’s still a work in progress. I express them. I recognize the ones I can identify. I still don’t know how to deal with them.

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To pay respect to those who came before me, celebrating their efforts and achievements, and to see off those who will come after me, passing our torch, full of dreams and ambitions, to them as they run forward in our stead.

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I am taking a conscious decision to start celebrating my own birthday.

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Not to commemorate getting one year closer to natural death, nor to mark another 365 days passing, but to celebrate my processes of rebirth;