Is is as if life or reality itself has had it in mind all along to unravel the very design i have been trying all along to impose on it.
I__e gotta stop thinking I know what other people think, cause most of __hat other people think_ is something I__ making up. So I should just let them have their experience, I__l have my experience and not pretend to know, and just get past that. [I think that] is a major obstacle: manifesting that insecurity, that fear. Believing the audience in your head as opposed to what__ really going on in the world__ot responding to the one I__ making up, which is always going to judge me harder than the real one.
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I__e gotta stop thinking I know what other people think, cause most of __hat other people think_ is something I__ making up. So I should just let them have their experience, I__l have my experience and not pretend to know, and just get past that. [I think that] is a major obstacle: manifesting that insecurity, that fear. Believing the audience in your head as opposed to what__ really going on in the world__ot responding to the one I__ making up, which is always going to judge me harder than the real one.
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