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Now I procrastinate my study sessions alternating between not opening a single book for weeks and pulling all nighters before tests giving myself black coffee diarrhea. The gifted child burnout. I ruined my walls writing down the number of the pages I have to study for the tests and sticking them on my desk front wall with paper tape highlighting the number of every page when I’m done studying it. I make little useless annotations at the side of every paragraph even when it’s something that’s already told in the book. I write almost exclusively in 2B pencil and categorically refuse to use my rubber. The chaotic academia facade. I study in my bed pretending to be Blair Waldorf struggling to get into Yale giving myself backache and watching some carefully chosen YouTube channels about philosophical issues. I keep all my pencils in an improper pen holder on my desk for aesthetic purposes. The overachiever pipeline.

being the middle child is like. i love my younger sister to bits even if we fight jokingly and i will always help her no matter what but with my older sister its like. you do everything good and hate everything that i like and just make me upset? you talk to me and you know my favourite colour and everything i like but still somehow despise me for what i am. our parents misunderstand all of us equally but we can never go to each other for it. i dont go to family events because i know everyone will like you better and i dont want to feel like the burden. i was still the one you trusted and you told me something you were hiding first before the rest of our family and i didn't say a word . i wont go near anything you like because i know youll hate it. i know all of your friends names but you shame me for everyone im friends with. i wish we were close but it just seems you hate me. i wish you didnt. i wish you liked me.

Bog Trail by Shane Garlock

But GOD I hope he stays, he loves them so much and they bring so much color to each others lives 😭😭😭😭😭

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Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may be admirable but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples, and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.