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Make more time for things that make your heart smile. Follow your curiosities a little further. Let yourself become fascinated by things again. Fall into rabbit holes. A lot of joy comes from giving your curiosity room to wander instead of constantly pulling it back toward what is considered useful.

Don’t ruin your beautiful soul to relate to an ugly society. There is no virtue in betraying yourself for the sake of belonging. You were not born to agree with everything around you. You were not born to dilute your beliefs, hide your perspective, or reshape your character until it becomes easier for others to accept. Be authentic. The world will survive your authenticity. Make sure your authenticity survives the world.

Is it better to speak or to die? Human beings have always carried a strange desire to make themselves known. To turn thoughts into words, feelings into confessions, to be known without being judged. And yet there is another way of existing where everything remains inside you, unspoken and unseen, where emotions never become language and truths never take form outside your mind, until even you stop reaching them properly. A slow death of the self that no one else ever gets to witness.

“Trying” is so cool. Don’t let a lame shame you for trying. There is nothing cooler than caring enough to make an effort. To create something. To learn something. To risk being bad at something before becoming good at it. There is nothing embarrassing about wanting more for your life. The embarrassing part is mocking effort because you are too afraid to make one yourself.

What if they don’t see me? I see me. Why should my understanding of myself become less real just because someone else couldn’t understand it? Like Not everyone will get you and that’s okay. Their view of you is built from a few moments, a few conversations, a few assumptions. You are the only person who has lived every version of yourself, carried every thought, fought every battle, and seen the whole story. Don’t let someone else’s limited perspective outweigh your own lived experience.

Become the person that you would like to be around. People are quick to complain about shallow conversations, inconsistent friendships, lack of honesty, lack of effort, lack of warmth but rarely stop to ask whether they themselves are offering the kind of presence they wish existed more in the world. A lot of the energy we crave from others begins with what we choose to embody ourselves.

You can become new again at any point in your life. Human beings are not permanently tied to one identity, one mindset, one way of existing forever. At any moment, you can decide to think differently, live differently, move toward a different version of yourself. That is the strange and beautiful thing about being human you are always one decision away from beginning again.

The love you’ve given to others is never wasted. Human love was never designed to be permanent to be real. People leave, change, grow apart, and still what existed between two humans in those moments was genuine. The way you cared, the way you showed up, the way you made someone feel seen that is real human love in action. It doesn’t become meaningless just because it didn’t last forever or because the story didn’t continue. It existed, it mattered, and it shaped both sides while it was alive.

Don’t find yourself. Create yourself. People spend so much time searching for who they are as if the answer already exists somewhere outside them waiting to be found, but a huge part of becoming who you are happens through choice. Through what you pursue, what you practice, what you walk away from, what you allow yourself to become over time. You become yourself through creation, not passive discovery.

Be chalant. Care deeply, speak openly, express things fully. The internet made everyone believe sincerity is cringe and emotional distance is maturity. Meanwhile the people actually enjoying life are the ones allowing themselves to be excited, emotional, passionate, invested. Existing like you are too cool to care about anything is such a dull way to experience being alive.

Stop being scared of being disliked by losers. Half the people judging you do not even have the courage to live honestly themselves. They built their entire identity around being acceptable, predictable, approved by everyone around them., then project that frustration onto anyone bold enough to exist authentically. People who are truly authentic rarely spend their time mocking others for expressing themselves. PERIOD.

To be loved is to be changed. Love changes you because being deeply known by another human being makes your inner world reorganize around that experience. Someone enters your life, and suddenly your understanding of yourself is no longer built from you alone. Their way of seeing you becomes part of how you see yourself. Their presence leaves an imprint on your thoughts, your identity, your way of existing. That is why real love is never neutral. To be loved is, inevitably, to become someone slightly different than who you were before it.

Being curious is such a beautiful feeling. It makes the world feel larger than your current understanding of it. One question leads to another, one discovery opens the door to ten more, and suddenly life feels full of things still waiting to be understood. Curiosity keeps your mind alive because it reminds you that there is always more beyond what you already know.

All roads lead back to myself. No matter how much I try to reinvent my life through new people, new places, new versions of me, I still find myself searching for the same things underneath it all peace, meaning, connection, a place to belong inside my own existence. Every path I take eventually circles back to the relationship I have with myself.

Be your own home. A place that doesn’t depend on who stays or what falls apart outside. Somewhere stability isn’t borrowed from people, attention, or circumstances, but built quietly through self-understanding and consistency. Over time, the need to escape lessens, and what remains is a presence that feels familiar enough to return to, even on the hardest days.

It only gets better if you make it better. People wait so long for someone else to bring meaning into their lives that they forget they were always allowed to create it themselves. We expect love to fix us, friendships to heal us, attention to complete us. But no amount of love from other people can save a life you keep abandoning yourself in. Because a life only changes when you finally decide to participate in saving it.

Embarrassment is an under explored emotion. People avoid it so desperately that they end up avoiding life itself. They would rather stay predictable than risk being seen trying, failing, feeling, wanting. Human beings were never built to move through life like perfectly programmed machines. We were made to blush, stutter, misread situations, say the wrong thing, laugh too much, and survive it anyway.

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