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Okay.
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Hello, everyone.
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Welcome to this week's episode of Pretty Lonesome.
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It is 2 p .m right now, so in fact, not the morning.
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I am having the best day.
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I don't know why.
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I don't know why.
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I don't even have makeup on right now.
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I just feel so good, and I am so excited to film this podcast episode
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and I think a part of the reason is this lovely
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plant I think I talked about this in last week's episode
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which I filmed yesterday but I got this plant
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and she is just thrilling me like I didn't think for
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some reason the vibe of this apartment I was like it doesn't need plants
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and I was really enjoying not did I even tell you
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that I got a plan yesterday I can't fucking remember
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but for some reason I was just like I don't need plants in here like the vibes aren't plant vibes
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and also I love not having a single responsibility other than my own flesh
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and bones you know like when I leave the house
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if I go on trips like there's nothing I have to consider except me
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and like my passport you know
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so I was like I don't want anything to care for
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that someone's gonna have to check in on like as much as I would love a hamster
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or a mouse
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so badly I was like no don't want a responsibility don't even want a fucking house plant
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but then yesterday I was having the weirdest morning ever like
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I did I tell you all of this yesterday yeah I
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woke up really early fell asleep on my couch went for a walk went to the plant shop bought this
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lovely lady which I need to name her
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and I just can't like I just love the way she looks in here the vibes are
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so good and I don't know why I'm having such a good morning
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because I slept like shit last night like pure shit
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but I fell asleep at like 4 a .m
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but I went to bed on time
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and I had an exhausting like I was so tired at bedtime
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and I went to bed and I just could not get to sleep I hate
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when that happens and then I woke up at 9 a .m
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which is not early by any means
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but like I was I had nothing to do in the morning until 11
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so I was like I'll just sleep till like 10
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woke up to drilling because they're still doing drilling every day sorry
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if you can hear it in this episode hopefully you can't
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but woke up and I was like well fuck I might as well just get up
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and start my day and since then like I've just been happy
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and like I just went and sat
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and I was like writing down some thoughts for this podcast episode in my little filofax here
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and in the back of my filofax oh by the way
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I got the coolest new thing I got finally I've been
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wanting one of these for ages I got a pocket insert
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how sick is this it's like a little like pencil case insert
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so cool anyway at the back of my thing I have pictures of me
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and Millie my best friend and she was popping up like this
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so as I was writing I could just see her face
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and I was just like overwhelmed with this gratitude for life
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and I like I genuinely wrote down in my journal as
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I was planning podcast episode at a random 2 p .m
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on a random Tuesday I was like do you know what
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I think right now is the happiest I've ever felt like
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it's not a moment of excitement it's not a moment of like sudden joy
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because I got good news it's not like in a situation
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that's made me like oh my god yay like I was just sat there
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and I was like I'm so I think
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because I filmed yesterday I filmed an episode
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and in it I was talking a bit about friendship
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and I was like I feel so lucky about the friends
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that I have that was like on my mind this morning again
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and I was seeing Millie's face as I was writing about stuff
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and I was like I really do feel
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so lucky like it is it's so crazy to me
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that I have the friends that I have
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and I was I actually had a call with a psychiatrist this morning
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and she was asking me about like my support system
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and I was like she was like okay
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so like who would you call if you were crying for example
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and I said I would call my best friend Millie
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or my best friend T and my mom and saying
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that I was like god I that alone like I don't sometimes I just I'm
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so like in disbelief that I have the people
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that I have around me like I how like I anyway
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I'm in a great mood great mood also part of my
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the reason for my great mood part of the reason for
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my lessening great mood is the lighting right now I just have a window in front of me
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and didn't put my studio light on again
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so I think it might be ugly sorry about that
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but let me know let me know
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but what was I saying oh another part of why I'm in a great mood is
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because you guys know i've been reading a court of thorns
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and roses for fucking ages now like i said ages ago
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that i was gonna start and i did
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but it damn like it's a slow burn like really fucking slow burn i finally got
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and if you know you know i got to chapter 22
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and finally shit is heating up
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and i looked how far am i through this goddamn book what do you mean chapter 22
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and you're just now getting freaky it's exactly pretty much it's
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got like the book is in half i'm halfway through the book
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and i was like that was annoying me so much
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because I was like I'm going to give up like I cannot keep reading this annoying internal monologue of Feyre
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I just spat, Feyre.
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But then when it happened, when it finally happened, I was like, you know what?
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Those 22 chapters of slop with so much love were so worth it because now, yeah, I get it.
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And I was even complaining in last week's episode about heated rivalry and I was saying like, the reason it didn't hit for me was like, you can't fake a slow burn.
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You can't time jump and put a text overlay
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and tell me it's been multiple years and expect me to feel this slow burn yearning.
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That doesn't work.
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Like, that's not gonna work on me.
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Sorry, no. And so then I also had the nerve to complain about how fucking slow of a burn ACOTAR is.
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Oh, I take it back.
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Like the second that they did what they did, every page was worth it.
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Every single page I read before, suddenly I understood why.
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And is that not a lesson for life?
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And is this not what I preach? like sometimes you don't
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know why painful things happen sometimes you don't know why you have to reach 22 chapters of a book
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that is just clearly not targeted towards your age demographic for
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you to finally get to the part where you think this
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is why I suffered this right here the fairy fucking the
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girl this is why I suffered yeah they haven't fucked yet they've not fucked yet really excited
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because I'm presuming that they obviously will
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if they don't I will sue I will be suing
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but yeah oh my god oh my god
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and i didn't think i would be into it like i didn't the the previous descriptions
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that we had gotten of tamlin's body i was like okay
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like we get it he's muscly can't really picture it i wish his face wasn't masked irritated
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and also like i feel like pharaoh's not described to be the most
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but also the whole thing i was just like i don't
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get it like i don't get it i get it i
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get it i get it i got it this morning i got it i'm probably gonna finish
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that book in the next day yeah i'm probably gonna read
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the next fucking 22 chapters within the next 24 hours
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so just keep an eye out for
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that uh next week's episode i'm sure we'll be talking more about it can't fucking wait can't fucking wait
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and then after i finish akatar i do have the next two books in the series
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but i'm gonna first read east of eden by who's
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that by john steinberg fuck i have no idea i bought it
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because i saw a tiktok about it
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and i was like oh this is sounds good as fuck
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so that's the next book that I want to read
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but yeah I'm so fucking I'm so fucking excited to get back to
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that book like literally everything in my day only stands in
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the way now of me getting back to print the
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and I swear to god I'm
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so excited let's see what I wrote in my little mind palace let's see what what was I thinking about
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when I was thinking about this episode oh yeah i just have this written down
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because i had to tell you i was sat on my rooftop writing for this episode
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and i was listening to gracie abrams good reason live from the bowery oh my god like
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if you've not heard
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that version of the song bro bro like i could have levitated this morning like i 20 minutes ago
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when i was doing this like i genuinely felt like i could be levitating
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that was so exactly the moments in life
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that I live to find again oh hold on I have to put my washing into the dryer hold on
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because I really have to
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because otherwise gonna screw the whole plan up I've got a
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whole plan hold on okay sorry I'm doing this whole thing
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where my family is coming to visit me in oh my god
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when are they coming they're coming in like did I smash
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my phone no my family is coming in oh literally a
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few days holy shit okay they're coming on Saturday it's Tuesday
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so my spare room in my apartment has been like my
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dumping ground like of all the stuff I couldn't father mum packing
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because I didn't know where it was meant to go I
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got stuck on like the last two boxes of like the worst stuff
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and it just sat there and I've had to go through everything
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and clear it all out
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and I just put a absolutely lethal amount of scent laundry scent into my next load
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because have you ever smelt clothes that have been in a box for four months
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because it fucking kicks actually it's longer than
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that it's more like six months Jesus fucking Christ ew okay anyway what was I talking about let's see okay
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so on the topic of like friendship I feel like we talked about
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that last week
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and I was talking about it in a good way right
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like I was saying well was I I can't remember what
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the fuck I said anyway last week we were kind of talking about friendship
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and I was reading through some email submissions for this week
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and one of the things that I read was this one girl who was saying
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that she had this best friend they're like 18 he he was a guy and he was gay, she was a girl.
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She was a skater boy, if you will.
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And he basically became really distant after their final year exams
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and she doesn't know why and she would try to address it with him and he like gaslit her a bit.
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and that upset her because she was like does he think
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that little of me to think
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that I'm fucking crazy like no you are being distant
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and he didn't change anything and he says he's too busy to hang out
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but then she'll hear that he's like hanging out with other people
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and she's like do you think that she was like basically saying
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that she's finding it hard to understand if she should just accept
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that everyone says friendships and especially school friendships
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and maybe that's just something she has to accept or
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if she should try again with him and try
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and either fix the friendship or understand if she does something wrong
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or just understand what the fuck has happened
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and it got me thinking about the different stages of life
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and the friendships that come with them
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and oh my god i have the worst sweat patches ever
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wait that's insane hold on guys i have the craziest sweat patches it's
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because it's because i have to turn off the ac
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when i film and then i just get wet damp all over
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so anyway fucking hell okay
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so here's the thing i I think friendships at the age of like 18
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when people are finishing school and going to uni go through so many changes.
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I think the one thing is
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that he's treating you like shit like he's not communicating
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and then when you communicate he is destroying any easy pathway to being honest
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which is that's for you to decide I think how you want to feel about
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that but I think you're valid and whatever you choose to do about
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that like but I think
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that people can go through a lot of interesting shifts in
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their thinking about who they're friends with around this time in their life
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because it's the first time when you're preparing to go out
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and be a completely essentially new person it's kind of like a new year for you like how everyone gets
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so like reflective before the new year what didn't work what
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do I want to change what's not coming with me that I think is
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the exact same thinking
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that goes on around the time before people go off to uni for the first time
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and for me I had a similar experience which I don't know if this is going to shed any light on
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anyone's situation but when I first went to uni being
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that age I was so intense and I was
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so critical of myself in a way
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that I like to think I'm not now like
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if there was something that I used to do
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that I either don't do anymore or didn't want to do anymore at
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that age I would be like
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that old thing I used to do was completely wrong
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and crazy and I'm never doing it again
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and anyone who does it is completely insane kind of how like sometimes
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when I learn a new fact I'm like anyone who doesn't know this is a fucking idiot
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and it's like bitch you love
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that three seconds ago I guilty to this day probably will always be guilty of doing
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that love it I love it but that's how I was about everything
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when I was 18 and going to uni like exacerbated
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that for me a lot and what I found was
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when I first went there were certain things
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that just fell away about my personality
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because there weren't people who brought those certain traits out in me anymore
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or those certain things out I then looked at them as like an older worse version of me
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because I thought that I was a lot more grown now
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and therefore much more correct than I used to be but
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so I remember after the first after my first year of
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uni there would be a lot of times where I would come home
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and I would see my old friends and they would I would
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when you go to uni
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and you form a new personhood a new life a new
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set of habits a new set of friends a new everything you literally can reinvent yourself
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and even if you don't intend to you just do
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because there's so many new contexts for you to exist in
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when you do that and you do it quickly
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and you do it not for a long period of time even three
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or four years of uni is not a long period of time to cement this new person you become
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so let's say you go to uni and you're there for a few months
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or you're preparing to go to uni even
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and you have these ideas about who you're going to be
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and what you're not going to be that person is
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so fragile it doesn't mean that they're not real but like for
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that person to really be you you have to exist as them for a lot longer like you it takes
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so much time to truly become the newer version of you
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and so even though you can embody that new version of you
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because you're in a new place with new people
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or you're just not in the old place with the old people
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that doesn't mean that when you go back to the old place with the old people
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that that old muscle memory of who you used to be isn't
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so much stronger than who you become when you go away does
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that make sense and I think that for me was disturbing for some reason like
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when I was 18 and I would come back from uni
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and I would slip back into my old routines my old
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habits my old friend groups my old sense of self it bugged the shit out of me
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because i was like i just don't want to be this
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anymore like i don't like who i become around these people
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and it's not
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that i was looking back there was nothing wrong with who i was around those people it just wasn't
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what I wanted to be at that time
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and what I wanted to be at that time was whatever I was when I was
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away from home that was who I preferred and
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that was who I thought was better and I was
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so opinionated at that age that like that was better
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and this was wrong and so I sort of not demonized
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but placed a bit of blame on the people from home
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who I would slip back into this old version of me around
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because I was like they're making me this person
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because they're speaking to me the way they spoke to me a year ago
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and they should know that it's not a year ago it's now
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and I'm not that person
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and I don't want to slip into these fucking ways of being around them
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and it's so hard for me not to and
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that just felt big for me at that age like
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and that's kind of fair like
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that is big like to feel like you're two separate people
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and not know why or how to stop being two separate people is like a lot
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and I actually
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that feeling led me to one of not it's not even
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a regret no it is a regret I hate saying regret
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because I don't want to criticize any of the things
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that got me to know what I know in the end
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but it makes me sad
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when I think about what I ended up doing what I
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ended up doing was one of my best friends from home who I would always see
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when I would go back and I would become this older version of me
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that I didn't want to be anymore I was like hey I don't want to be your friend anymore
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because I don't like who I am around you and
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that is such a heavy thing to say to someone
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and I didn't word it exactly like that I but it's
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that was the essence of what I said to her
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and I was I don't remember
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if we ever stopped being friends I think I just said like maybe I just communicated
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that that's how I was feeling I don't know if
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if we stopped being friends I think we did for a period of time
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but maybe I didn't end the friendship maybe it was just
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that we didn't really know how to be around each other after
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that after me saying that and in hindsight I do remember
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so clearly what I felt
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which was I don't know how to shift away from my old identity by being around this set of people
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because they expect this old identity of me
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and i don't know how to be firm enough in any other identity
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so i become the one that they know and
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that they speak to because that's who they know
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and since i don't know how to change that
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but i also don't want to be this person i'm just
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not going to be around these people now did any of those people do anything wrong in
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that situation obviously fucking not obviously fucking not and
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even if i had said hey you need to speak to the new me
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but that would have made no fuckies that's who who the fuck is
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that they don't fucking know that person i don't even fucking know
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that person enough to even present them with it I just knew I didn't like what I felt
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when I went in when I was in those spaces
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that makes sense and and interestingly that same friend who I sent
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that message to we ended up a few years later
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when I had matured a bit
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and we had presumably taken some time apart they also went to uni
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and we would probably see each other at Christmas we came back to each other
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and we really became friends again and I don't know
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if we ever really spoke about that message I don't know
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if I don't remember what actually happened after that I just know
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that there was a period of time where we didn't really speak
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and then we became friends again
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and she to this day is one of my best friends
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and she is my only hometown friend well that's not true there's a few others it's just
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that they don't live there anymore and to be fair neither as she
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but and i don't exactly know how we managed to maintain the friendship
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when i pushed her away for something
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that wasn't her fault there was a million other ways i could have gone about
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that but i was also 18 and so was she
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and things happen and i am so grateful
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that we came back to each other because i think
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that having friends who have been with you like your day ones are important
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and the more
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that you go through life i think the more people are
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drawn back to each other as long as there is still like a shared love
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and a shared set of values because you oh
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no idea who that was buzzed him in anyway shit
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but yeah i feel like i think that there's a lot of reasons
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that people can reject otherwise healthy friendships around
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that age is kind of my overarching point with
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that long fucking story is like if i had to
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if i was a third party between 18 -year -old me
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and 18 -year -old my best friend and I was looking at what was going on, could I have even thrown out a guess
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that would land anywhere near accurate as to why I was pushing away my best friend?
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No, no, the mind.
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wonders like the mind truly boggles like I think that people are
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so complex and you don't always know what they're thinking
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but around big transition ages
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and transition times like you've just finished school you're preparing to
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go to uni people call all sorts of things into question
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and they don't always go about it the right way
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that said you don't have to tolerate the fact
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that he's unable to give you the decency of any communication and
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that he is not ready to tell you what's going on
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for him maybe he doesn't know what's going on for him
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maybe he's depressed maybe he doesn't have the time like he says it it genuinely it could be
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so many different things that I think it's
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so hard to truly understand why people sometimes drift from us
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and I think that the nice thing is as life continues people do get drawn back together
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and as you grow up more and more
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and more you gain the ability to number one have hindsight into why you did certain things
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so even if he doesn't know right now and even
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if he does know can't communicate it to you that doesn't mean
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that there's not going to come a day where he looks back
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and says I'm really sorry that I distanced myself from you like
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that and I didn't ever tell you why I was actually going through the craziest thing
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and didn't know how to talk about it
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and sorry like hope is not lost you know it's not not everything I think is always
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so intentional like does he did he wake up one morning
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and think fucking hate this girl can't be asked don't need her anymore gonna stop talking to her like
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so possible but also there's a hundred other things there's a hundred other things
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that it could be and I think that the most important thing
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when something like this happens is to truly understand
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that sometimes we don't know why people don't want to be around us all the time anymore
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and a lot of the time
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if not most of the time it's probably not a lot to do with you
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which sucks low -key because it means
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that you may just have to wonder why did my friend fucking do
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that and you may not know ever you may know in a few years like
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but I think coming to terms with letting things end versus do I chase them is hard
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and it's something I struggle with I think sometimes you have to ask
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if it's truly worth it to you to know
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because sometimes you just have to let people have their experiences
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and understand that there's not always clarity in that for them
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and therefore there can't always be clarity in it for you
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and sometimes for reasons we might have an inkling toward
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or for reasons that we truly have no idea people just move away from us
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and I think nine times out of ten it's not
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because all of a sudden they don't like you I think usually there's something deeper like with me
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when I cut off my friend it was I didn't like myself I didn't like the version of myself
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that I would become in those old environments I didn't have
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an issue with any of my friends I just didn't know how to separate it
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and sometimes the only thing
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that friendships need is a bit of space friends can be seasonal
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which sucks I hate that like I'm not any more at peace with
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that than I the next bitch like what do you mean
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I love you I want you forever like I hate the concept
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that I could ever truly just not lose a friend through a fight
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but just not be friends with someone anymore because life like
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that sucks I don't fuck with that I'm not at ease with
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that I'm really not and I fully align with the belief
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that like you've got to let life flow through you
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and experiences aren't yours they're experiences and you pass through them
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and like this cycle of life
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and to not have to not feel like you own anything
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or anyone and to not feel like anything
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or anyone is too integral to your identity that you can't have them
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and then lose them and i think that accepting loss
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and endings is such an important part of life one
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that i am barely grappling with
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and haven't had too much life experience that's affronted me with those things
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so like i'm a newbie when it comes to like friendships end
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and people go away i don't like that i don't that's not
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that can't be true it can't be true like i really struggle with
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that but I understand the theology behind like
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that is the best way to live life like that's how life should be lived I agree
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when it's in practice though no I don't agree I don't
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think that's correct I think everyone should stay with me for like really I do I don't think it's okay
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that any of my friends would ever go anywhere you know
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but it is true unfortunately I don't like it
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but i i do think that the more that we can accept that as long as we are
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reasonably self -aware and good people and are aware
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that there was probably nothing major that we did to make a friendship stop working
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or stop being then that is just ultimately the natural progression of life people are
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so complex that you don't always know why they don't want to hang out anymore you don't always know
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if it's because they got something going on or
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if they don't resonate with you because they changed
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and you didn't expect that kind of change or
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because you make them feel like something they used to feel like
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and they're trying to get rid of that feeling or
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if they're depressed or if they're overwhelmed or
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if they're secretly in love with you like you could just never know
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and that is scary but I think
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that it is part of a bigger process of affirming your like identity to yourself as well
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because the way people act toward us obviously feels like a direct reflection on who we are right
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but while that can be true obviously it also is moments like these
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that make you look inward and assess your part in things
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and if you had a part to play in
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that friendships break down and if not it's a lot easier
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if the person will give you this closure but
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if they don't then you have to become even more self -assured
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that that you are deserving of friendship and
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that you know why you do and say the things you do
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and that you know why you treat people the way you do
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and that you know why you past mistakes you've made things you want to change things
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that you like about yourself
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that you think this is a good thing about me I
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do this right I treat my friends well like all of these things like experiences
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experiences like this that shake us
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and make you think like why is this person treating me
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like this is ultimately although violently unpleasant a good experience
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because it's one of those little things
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that makes you become at the end of it hopefully more self -assured
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or and more self -aware but like am I making any sense
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and that leads me kind of onto my next point is that I got an email
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talking about how to stop being how to stop fearing being perceived
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and I love this topic right now
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because I was like talking about this I feel like recently
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where I I was I can't remember what episode it was
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but I was talking about like how I was really always afraid of rejection
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and I didn't even know that I was someone who was afraid of rejection
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but I was once I became aware of it I was like oh shit I'm
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so afraid of rejection that I've never even done anything to be rejected
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and that's how I didn't know that I don't like rejection
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because I've never even really been rejected
475
because I never let myself do anything to ever be rejected
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and that kind of I keep spitting
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that kind of surprised me about myself actually it was kind of very tea
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but it changed my life as well
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because I was saying like who the fuck am I
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so scared of like and I could name people
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that I was scared of oh they're gonna say this oh they're gonna think
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that okay I understand that that's scary if they think
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but do you give a fuck does it change anything are
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you willing to not ever try to get the thing
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that you want because of how bad you would feel
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if this person said that you look stupid and if
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that is the price you're willing to pay fine sit on your ass for the rest of your life
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but if it's not then risk rejection please because I'm bored as hell
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that was kind of my thinking process around rejection recently
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and it was a very liberating one and so
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when this person wrote in and was like how do I stop being
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so afraid of being perceived it got me thinking how do you stop being afraid of being perceived
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and I think that the best way to stop is to realize
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that you will never perceive another person truly correctly you will probably also never perceive yourself truly correctly
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and no one will ever perceive you truly correctly either one of the things
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that I was insecure about as a kid for example I thought everyone knew what I knew about me
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which was that I was too skinny
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and clothes didn't look good on me I thought this was a fact
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and I was specifically very jealous of girls who looked a
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very specific type of way not jealous in like a mean way
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but like I just wanted clothes to fit me like
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that a great example was my childhood best friend we wore school uniform
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and so we would wear the same clothes every day
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and the way that her uniform fit her mine never fit me like
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that and I loved her legs because mind you we're like seven years old
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but like she was a football player
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and she had like more muscle than I did and I was
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so insecure of how skinny I was as a kid
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and I hated the way clothes looked on me
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and I always felt so stupid in a skirt
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but we had to wear skirts for school or dresses I fucking hate
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that shit and I look back at pictures of me now as a kid I had I remember
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so clearly exactly what kind of shape I wanted my body to have I literally looked exactly like
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that like exact I had exactly what I wanted I don't
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know what I was seeing or why I was seeing what I was seeing
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and I was very skinny as a kid
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but I looked nothing like how I thought I looked in
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my head literally nothing like it I had exactly what I wanted
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and I had no idea in fact I looked quite cool
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and I understand that kids perceptions of cool is just fucking crazy
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but I know what I perceived as cool as a kid
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and I literally looked like that
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and I thought I was just the most the biggest embarrassment
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to ever walk the earth I thought everything I did was insane
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and stupid and just seen through this lens of the way I saw myself
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which I took to be a complete fact about myself I thought everyone obviously understood this too
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and none of it was true and
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that was the craziest fucking thing for me to realize ever
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because I recently found a bunch of old pictures
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and videos from the camcorder that I fucking apparently had as a kid
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and I literally looked exactly how I wanted to look
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so crazy and because I didn't believe at all
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that I looked like that the way I moved through the world was as
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if I was completely someone else like it in it influenced
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every single thing I said how shy I was how silly I felt how people would say something to me
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and I would take it in the way I took it
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at any given moment through the lens of who I thought I was who I thought they were speaking to
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which was some pathetic uncool super super skinny weird freak child
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that was how I thought I was now looking back they obviously didn't think
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that about me and was I an odd child in my personality absolutely
541
is that just because of the way I thought I looked no this shit's bone deep
542
but like did it add to it
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yes because I thought I was such an outcast I thought I was the biggest freakazoid ever
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and I wasn't and
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that influenced the way I acted for my entire first half of my life
546
because that was what I believed and what you believe is just your perception right
547
and how wrong I was like that's
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so interesting to me to this day I wonder how different I would be
549
if I saw myself in even just as part of the way
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that I now know is more accurate for how I really looked without the lens of insecurity
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and the terrors of childhood weighing upon me at all times and for some reason that
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realization that was mind -blowing to me
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because it was almost part of my idea i mean it was part of my identity
554
that that was a fact about me
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and as a kid i was looked crazy and was super weird
556
and everyone knew that and then i looked back at these pictures
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and i was like that wasn't true but
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that is how i moved through the world and so
559
that was my experience of the world
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but it wasn't everyone else's experience of me does that make sense
561
and I was like how can I be
562
that wrong about myself I was looking at me every day in the mirror I was in my own flesh
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and bones how could I have been
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so wrong about everything about myself like complete body dysmorphia like at the age of seven is crazy
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and I'm not saying I'm like sad about those experiences at all I actually think
566
that that was great character building for me but how interesting
567
that that is just how weirdly wrong your perception of yourself can be
568
and it can change the entire trajectory of your life that's wild
569
and so it got me thinking if I could have been
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that wrong then what the fuck am I wrong about now
571
and I dropped so much of my judgment on myself
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and my perception on myself literally since then
573
because sometimes now I will just think something about myself
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that i just think is true it's just my opinion it's opinion space
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and it's just like a feeling it's a they're all feelings i have about myself beliefs
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that i have about myself that i don't even
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necessarily even have words
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that go with it's just like well this is how i feel about this
579
and this is how i do this and
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or this is the way i am ever
581
or this is something that's true about me every time i thought
582
that since i'm like that might not be true hey wait
583
that might not be true which was so freeing
584
because I was like what if nothing I know about myself is accurate what
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if the amount of perception I have about myself is awfully wrong
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and how freeing is that because there are so many people
587
that could perceive me in so many different ways
588
and I have already accepted that sometimes they'll be somewhat right
589
or I will think they're right sometimes they'll be dead wrong
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or what I think is dead wrong but how often am I even correct and
591
if I could see myself there is no such thing as seeing yourself with a fresh set of eyes right
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because in order to perceive something to see something
593
and to understand it you have to have language capability you have to have cognition
594
and if you're a person with cognition and language capability in order to put sense to the things that you see, right, to perceive.
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then you also have to have grown up in a culture
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that taught you the language that taught you the language
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and you have to get to an age where your brain
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has developed for those two abilities to have developed to the
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point where you can successfully perceive anything the amount of worldly
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experience the amount of bias the amount of internalized opinions of
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others biases of others of your own of your there is
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no way to form the ability to perceive without also having formed
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so many lenses through which you see everything
604
so there's no such thing as a fresh set of eyes
605
or a completely unbiased set of eyes in terms of I wonder what someone would perceive of me
606
if they've never seen me before they've seen a million things before they've seen you
607
so they're not seeing you for the first time they're seeing everything they've ever seen before and using
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that to contextualize what they see in you there's no way to remove worldly experience bias understanding context from
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that because in order to have the ability to have seen you in the first place
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that has to exist so there's no one
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that can objectively view you no one on earth right
612
that can objectively tell you a truth about yourself because
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because of everything I just said everyone has to have already formed a language model
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which even if you formed a language model in a room with no fucking windows
615
and nothing on the walls well number one that can't happen
616
and number two biases in the language itself right and
617
and also that doesn't it's not there's no one like
618
that that's unethical okay I think they tried that shit in the 80s
619
and it did not fly so but like
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when you can understand just how much context goes into perception you've got to take it less fucking seriously at that point
621
because number one you can never predict someone's perception of you
622
number two they will never be there will never be an objectively true perception of you okay
623
and there is reality in all of this right like everyone needs to always have a grounding in reality just
624
because no one's perception of you will ever be completely correct doesn't mean someone can walk up to you
625
and say that your skin is blue
626
when it's not blue right there's certain perceptions that we can all make
627
that we can all agree on
628
because we're all people who have our feet on the ground
629
that makes sense like you can't just start throwing shit at the wall
630
and saying it's opinions based and therefore it's as true as the next obviously not
631
but like to truly be perceived in the ways
632
that we are feared of like to be perceived as a try hard maybe
633
or as untalented or unskilled or desperate or annoying
634
or unfunny any of the bad things that that maybe
635
when we think of oh my god how are they perceiving
636
me right now too vulnerable not vulnerable enough like whatever those things how much can it truly matter
637
when when you can't even begin to review the data with
638
which they've made that judgment do you know what i mean like
639
and i think that the the ways we perceive ourselves like can just be
640
so wrong and I think that like if I was to sit here
641
and be like well I perceive myself as quite shit socially like defo not the life of the party
642
and I don't mesh in new groups that easily like
643
that would be true in my lived experience I will stand on
644
that but again that's my lived experience
645
which has lived through lenses I have accumulated through 26 years of life
646
and sometimes we like to think that we're smart enough
647
and objective enough people to be able to make statements with a certain level of certainty
648
that I'm bad socially but
649
when you actually think about all of the all of the data
650
that has gone into me making that judgment on myself still doesn't make it
651
that true because why
652
because maybe someone else in the same room where I'm thinking
653
god I'm making an absolute shit up of this maybe they're thinking god I wish I was more like
654
that because in their opinion they speak too much
655
and they think I'm annoying in social situations because I speak too much
656
and this person knows how to only speak occasionally and it's
657
so much more pleasant
658
and endearing than me who speaks too much like you never know how someone else perceives themselves
659
and therefore how you reflect back qualities they want
660
or don't want you don't know the lenses
661
that they have on the things that you do
662
and who's more right the person who thinks that you're quite good socially
663
and they'd like to be more like you socially
664
or you who thinks you're quite bad socially
665
and quite awkward you're both people with brains and souls
666
and spirits and you're both sane and in reality so who's right
667
neither of you the truth is somewhere in between not even
668
in between it's up i don't know where it is it's
669
not attainable bitch i've tried trust me i've tried i take surveys and shit
670
but like do you understand why i'm saying is like fuck
671
perception is what i'm saying it's not worth anything it's not worth anything
672
but the enjoyment of it to learn more about other people's
673
perception to learn more about yours to see how it can
674
change to challenge it to ask why does this exist
675
but to fear it it's not a concrete enough thing to fear does
676
that make sense it's not factual it's
677
so intricately developed it often has nothing to really even do with you
678
because how much of the world do you see
679
and how much words that aren't yours do you hear
680
that create your concepts opinions your knowledge your worldview versus your
681
own everything is up everything is up for changing I think
682
when it comes to perception
683
and to fear being perceived is to fear being alive like
684
there's no way out of it people are going to perceive you in unpredictable ways in ways that
685
very often have nothing to do with you you're going to perceive you in ways
686
that very often have nothing to do with you you're both
687
going to be right you're both going to be wrong
688
but you should never take your own perception of yourself as a fact I don't think
689
and certainly the fear of perception is an interesting thing
690
because to fear being perceived in a specific way you're anticipating
691
that people are going to perceive you in that specific way
692
which means you perceive yourself in that specific way
693
because perception being as niche of a thing as personal of
694
a thing as it is as big of a projection as
695
it often is you cannot reasonably predict anyone's perception of anything
696
so to fear perception a specific type of perception to fear
697
that you are predicting it which probably means it's more your perception than anyone else's
698
which is great because you can work with
699
that you can work with it and you can say is this true if they thought this about me
700
if ever if they thought this about me if someone watched me
701
and thought this thing about me why would that thing feel
702
so bad why am I so scared of someone thinking
703
that about me do I think that about myself and if
704
that thing about me is for all intents
705
and purposes true what do I do
706
and that's a fun game to play on a Saturday night with your friends
707
or by yourself
708
and perception in my opinion at least is also a bit
709
like a fun it's like a fun addition to a video game because
710
if we look at this shit this life like a video
711
game your perception the perception others have on you whilst I
712
don't think it's something you can ever truly control it is something
713
that you can play with and work with and investigate your own perception
714
and other people's perceptions because it's
715
so not concrete there's like endless possibilities it to fear it
716
is to miss out on a hugely fun part of life don't be scared of it that's my advice
717
and if you are scared of it
718
that is I dare to say all you
719
because there's also nothing wrong with being viewed as a fucking moron
720
so what villain arc like who cares are you a moron no do people see you
721
that way let's say yeah okay well
722
if you're not a moron then get her work have some fun no you're not gonna die
723
because someone thinks you're a moron as long as you're not a moron you're probably not gonna die
724
so again until defeat no until death or defeat psychological bitch
725
and so anyways oh i I have three minutes left on my two -hour timer.
726
I set a two -hour timer because two hours ago, well, nearly two hours ago, it'll be two hours and two minutes and 44 seconds.
727
My assistant left my apartment to run errands and she will soon be back to run more errands from inside the apartment.
728
We're going to get back to work with cleaning my spare room out, because it's not finished.
729
And then what else are we going to do?
730
If I finish this podcast before she gets back, because I don't know where she's at right now.
731
If I finish this podcast before she gets back, I'm going to have a bit of free time to work on my puzzle, which is over there on the floor i'm very excited about
732
it she got me a puzzle my assistant's name is emma get to know
733
and she got me a puzzle for my birthday it's
734
so cute and it's cats in like a butt it's actually such a sick puzzle
735
but if you know then i'm still working on my yoshimoto nara puzzle wait why does
736
that feel like the wrong word yoshitomo nara paku yoshitomo yoshitomo
737
nara i'm still working on my yoshitomo a Nara puzzle it's
738
so hard because I've done her face
739
and then she's just in like a green and black night sky
740
and so I'm currently trying to place together a series of just green
741
and black fucking puzzle pieces and it is really fucking hard
742
but stupidly so I keep my puzzle underneath my coffee table
743
because it's like the only protected place to keep it unless I'm pulling out to work on it Ow, hello.
744
that really hurt but then I got ahead of myself
745
and I really wanted to start the new puzzle
746
that she got me for my birthday because the other one is
747
so fucking hard and I can't finish it
748
but now I have nowhere to store this new one
749
so it's just a mess on my floor
750
so I need to finish my Yoshimoto Nara one
751
and then I have the glue so I can stick it together
752
and it'll be a piece of art
753
and then I'm gonna hang it on the wall
754
so I really need to finish it
755
because then I'll have a cool piece of art
756
and somewhere else to store my new puzzle right now I
757
just have a big mess on my hands guys a big
758
mess okay I'm gonna go I'm gonna go do my puzzle
759
and I'm gonna maybe read some more very smart love you guys
760
so much thanks for listening to this week's episode pretty lonesome I hope you have a splendid day love you
761
so much whatever you're doing thank you for listening
762
and I actually do love you so fucking much by the way
763
when I was reading some email submissions and like writing in this earlier
764
when I was planning the episode and thinking about how much I love Millie
765
and thinking about how much I love
766
that Gracie Abrams live lounge version I was also think about how much I love you guys
767
because not to get like you know gay
768
but like every time I meet someone that says
769
that they watch this podcast they're the nicest person ever
770
and whenever I read your guys's like email submissions for like the advice episodes
771
and stuff my alarm's going oh excuse me you're just
772
so you're you're just they're so they're
773
so like I don't know I they're just always written with
774
so much like innocence and like it's just everyone one is
775
so cute and i see a lot of the emails as well
776
that are unrelated to the advice episodes people just send in stuff sometimes
777
and i read a lot of them after i did an
778
episode where i was talking about wanting to learn every language in the world
779
so that i can describe concepts that i don't know about yet with languages
780
that have words for concepts i don't know about yet one person sent me this email
781
and it's called hold on i literally like shitted my pants
782
when i saw this email where did it go it said
783
untranslatable words dear Madeline in your podcast episode you talked about
784
how some words in different languages are used to describe certain concepts
785
that English doesn't have a word for I found it really funny
786
that my current read does share some words that are not translatable
787
so here they are and it's from a fiction novel named The Someday Garden
788
so I might buy this book but it also feels a bit like cheating
789
because I quite liked my life mission this is a cheat code
790
but I thought that was such a nice email to receive
791
and I literally like stared at it for so long
792
and then someone else wrote me an email about words in
793
their language let me try find it now my wi -fi doesn't work love someone else sent me an email
794
that said words I like in my language their mother tongue is Turkish
795
and then they sent me a list of their favorite words in Turkish
796
that describe things that we don't have maybe in English
797
and I just thought that was
798
so kind like someone took the time to send me those emails
799
and I love you guys they am going getting emotional
800
and stuff I'm not even during my period or anything actually I am
801
but why am I so happy strange super strange
802
so anyways that's all from me I love you guys
803
so much thanks for listening I see you same time same
804
place next week let me know how we feel about the setup again I'm warming to this area
805
but the thing is I have to sit on my feet to be tall enough
806
and a cushion and that is bothersome to me
807
because I can't feel my feet right now I'm like my
808
knees are bent I'm on my feet they are completely dead
809
to me I love you guys I'll see you next week
810
same time same place probably I there you go bye guys
811
thanks for listening love you it's gonna actually take me a
812
sec to get up hold on fucking hell oh god okay bye
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Dieses Video ist ein perfektes Beispiel für natürliche, alltägliche Englisch-Sprechung – ideal fürs Shadowspeak oder das Üben von flüssigem Reden. Die Sprecherin teilt ihre Gedanken locker und unvorbereitet, was eine realistische Kontext gibt: von guten Tagen über Pflanzen bis zu Schlafproblemen. So lernst du, wie Menschen in der Freizeit kommunizieren – nicht nur Wörter, sondern auch Emotionen und Rhythmus. Das macht es einfacher, die Sprache selbstbewusst anzuwenden. Englisch lernen mit Videos wie diesem hilft, die Sorge zu verlieren, "falsch" zu sprechen – genau wie die Sprecherin, die sich nicht um ihre Erscheinung kümmert, sondern einfach redet.
Grammatik & Ausdrücke im Kontext
- "I don't even have makeup on right now": Die Struktur "have + Nomen + on" (etwas anhaben) ist üblich für Kleidung oder Schminke. Ein Beispiel: "She has a hat on."
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- "I slept like shit last night": "Like shit" ist eine umgangssprachliche Form, um etwas schlecht zu beschreiben. Andere Varianten: "It rained like crazy" (es regnete wie verrückt).
Häufige Aussprache-Fallen
Um Englische Aussprache zu verbessern, achte auf diese Wörter: - "Thrilling": Die "th"-Laut (wie in "the") ist oft schwierig – drücke die Zunge sanft gegen die Zahnfleischgrenze. - "Exhausting": Die Betonung liegt auf der zweiten Silbe: "ex-HAUS-ting", nicht "EX-haus-ting". - "Filofax": Ein Markenname, der wie "Fai-lo-faks" ausgesprochen wird – beachte die lange "i"-Laut. Übe diese Wörter mit Shadowing: Höre die Sprecherin nach, kopiere ihren Ton und Rhythmus. Ein shadowing site kann dir hierbei helfen, aber auch einfach das Video mehrmals wiederholen reicht!
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Grammatik in diesem Video
Die Strukturen, die der Sprecher am häufigsten verwendet, mit den genauen Worten aus dem Video:
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|---|---|
| „Used to“ used to + Verb – eine frühere Gewohnheit oder ein Zustand, der nicht mehr gilt | used to do · used to be · used to feel |
| Bedingungssätze if + Satz, will/would + Verb – eine Bedingung und ihre Folge | if they don't I will sue · if the person will give |
| Present Perfect have/has + Partizip Perfekt – eine vergangene Handlung, die jetzt noch wichtig ist | I've just been · I've been · I've ever felt |
| Passiv be + Partizip Perfekt – wichtig ist, was geschieht, nicht wer es tut | was just sat · wasn't masked · was sat |
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