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my heart aches and aches and aches and

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what a woman becomes in your presence is the most honest feedback you'll ever receive about the man you really are

I’m not okay but I’m funny so it balances out.

no one tells you how much of life takes practice. not just writing, painting, running, singing, etc, but practicing how to make friends. how to make the right ones. getting practiced at how to be a good friend, a good sibling, a good person. practice identifying when people haven’t earned that. learning to recognize your right to rage and, eventually, how to offer mercy. so much of life is muscle memory, and i’ve begun to realize there are so many more parts of ourselves to flex and stretch and strengthen than those we’re taught in anatomy lessons

knew from a young age that i was weird and unfixable