Thank you, Bear. This is super clear and easy to follow and, I’m sorry that I can say this, true in my experience. Gaslighting sucks and emotionally abusive behaviors are not okay.
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Thank you, Bear. This is super clear and easy to follow and, I’m sorry that I can say this, true in my experience. Gaslighting sucks and emotionally abusive behaviors are not okay.
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When I was young
When I was young
I had the world at my feet
I'd take my car keys and venture off
To The City I'd say
And all would follow
We'd drink and laugh
We'd sing and dance
Memories we made
But those fade away
Where are you I ask
And silence follows
Now I'm old
My friends have gone
No one ever calls or writes
All I have are fleeting
Memories of my youth
BRIGHTENER : MAKE REAL FRIENDS
maybe I should make real friends so I can go out again we can drink at houses where we don't know anyone and grumble why we got no friends I could text James again but he's got a new best friend I could text my friend with benefits but she don't like when I try to be her man so I'll just sit alone scrolling through my phone wonder who my real friends are and I could count them on my fingers but I'll draw their faces where my calluses are maybe I should make real friends maybe I should make real friends so I drove to a rooftop bar blasting music in the car met up with a real good friend surrounded by her roommates I heard that they hated me so we went to a different bar and I got drunk and felt her up now I lost another friend to sex I should resist it I should be a better man so I'll just sit at home for days I sit alone and wallow that I got no one to put my arm around and drive to the griffith hike in the midday sun maybe I should make real friends maybe I should make real friends but I don't understand am I not friendly cuz the pretentious kids all have it in for me they don't know who I am maybe that's my problem am I a decent friend anyone need a friend like me everyday I go outside walk in the park, sunlight go to a show call it a night and I wonder why I got no friends maybe I should make real friends
Brightener "Make Real Friends"
can someone message me when people are done being asscrippled by Frozen's apparent rasicism?
Brightener - Make Real Friends