You have to appreciate where you have come from to know who you are in the present and whom you would like to be in the future.
The whole time I pretend I have mental telepathy. And with my mind only, I__l say _ or think? _ to the target, 'Don__ do it. Don__ go to that job you hate. Do something you love today. Ride a rollercoaster. Swim in the ocean naked. Go to the airport and get on the next flight to anywhere just for the fun of it. Maybe stop a spinning globe with your finger and then plan a trip to that very spot; even if it__ in the middle of the ocean you can go by boat. Eat some type of ethnic food you__e never evenheard of. Stop a stranger and ask her to explain her greatest fears and her secret hopes and aspirations in detail and then tell her you care because she is a human being. Sit down on the sidewalk and make pictures with colorful chalk. Close your eyes and try to see the world with your nose__llow smellsto be your vision. Catch up on your sleep. Call an old friend you haven__ seen in years. Roll up your pant legs and walk into the sea. See a foreign film. Feed squirrels. Do anything! Something! Because you start a revolution one decision at a time, with each breath you take. Just don__ go back to thatmiserable place you go every day. Show me it__ possible to be an adult and also be happy. Please. This is a free country. You don__ have to keep doing this if you don__ want to. You can do anything you want. Be anyone you want. That__ what they tell us at school, but if you keep getting on that train and going to the place you hate I__ going to start thinking the people at school are liars like the Nazis who told the Jews they were just being relocated to work factories. Don__ do that to us. Tell us the truth. If adulthood is working some death-camp job you hate for the rest of your life, divorcing your secretly criminal husband, being disappointed in your son, being stressed and miserable, and dating a poser and pretending he__ a hero when he__ really a lousy person and anyone can tell that just by shaking his slimy hand _ if it doesn__ get any better, I need to know right now. Just tell me. Spare me from some awful fucking fate. Please.
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
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The whole time I pretend I have mental telepathy. And with my mind only, I__l say _ or think? _ to the target, 'Don__ do it. Don__ go to that job you hate. Do something you love today. Ride a rollercoaster. Swim in the ocean naked. Go to the airport and get on the next flight to anywhere just for the fun of it. Maybe stop a spinning globe with your finger and then plan a trip to that very spot; even if it__ in the middle of the ocean you can go by boat. Eat some type of ethnic food you__e never evenheard of. Stop a stranger and ask her to explain her greatest fears and her secret hopes and aspirations in detail and then tell her you care because she is a human being. Sit down on the sidewalk and make pictures with colorful chalk. Close your eyes and try to see the world with your nose__llow smellsto be your vision. Catch up on your sleep. Call an old friend you haven__ seen in years. Roll up your pant legs and walk into the sea. See a foreign film. Feed squirrels. Do anything! Something! Because you start a revolution one decision at a time, with each breath you take. Just don__ go back to thatmiserable place you go every day. Show me it__ possible to be an adult and also be happy. Please. This is a free country. You don__ have to keep doing this if you don__ want to. You can do anything you want. Be anyone you want. That__ what they tell us at school, but if you keep getting on that train and going to the place you hate I__ going to start thinking the people at school are liars like the Nazis who told the Jews they were just being relocated to work factories. Don__ do that to us. Tell us the truth. If adulthood is working some death-camp job you hate for the rest of your life, divorcing your secretly criminal husband, being disappointed in your son, being stressed and miserable, and dating a poser and pretending he__ a hero when he__ really a lousy person and anyone can tell that just by shaking his slimy hand _ if it doesn__ get any better, I need to know right now. Just tell me. Spare me from some awful fucking fate. Please.
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