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when everything gets fuzzy and overwhelming:


Don't suffer from questioning about what it is we are actually doing on this earth and how things just 'happen'. Think of this curiosity as a beautiful thing. There are so many pieces to this puzzle that you can find along the way. The bigger picture can be intimidating sometimes. But you can't look at the disassembled puzzle and give up or feel shit because not everything is in the place from the start. You have the time. You can solve these things step by step, truly experiencing every realization that life has to offer. And I feel that what you could find out while solving these things is that there is something more than the mere satisfaction of completion beyond that finish line. Maybe you'll see that there is no such thing as a finish line, there's no such thing as everything being ‘over’. Everything might just be transformed and strangely connected. Don’t attach yourself so much to what you do or do not have. Let it flow. Embrace that flow despite emotional conflict.

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