But if you wish, you can imagine that the Shadow does wait for your return and that it does remember everything that has gone before and that it doesn__ let you accept yourself as perfect until you let it. There is truth in that. That is why a child usually cries as soon as it__ born. With its first breath, the Shadow returns.
When you begin to walk your own journey, to have your own unique conversation, you will naturally stop feeling envious of others. Not because you__l realize your desires are different from theirs, but because they are so similar. You__l discover the difference between doing well and pretending to do well, between being happy and pretending to be happy, between healthy relationships and staged ones. You__l see just how many obstacles lie on any path. You__l realize that it takes the same amount of effort to work on building up the quality of the conversations in your life as it does to broadcast to the public, constantly, that those conversations are already perfect. You can either build up the mask or build up the authentic self. And you, brave and beautiful you, will make the right choice eventually. Be it now or on your deathbed. We all realize soon enough.
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When you begin to walk your own journey, to have your own unique conversation, you will naturally stop feeling envious of others. Not because you__l realize your desires are different from theirs, but because they are so similar. You__l discover the difference between doing well and pretending to do well, between being happy and pretending to be happy, between healthy relationships and staged ones. You__l see just how many obstacles lie on any path. You__l realize that it takes the same amount of effort to work on building up the quality of the conversations in your life as it does to broadcast to the public, constantly, that those conversations are already perfect. You can either build up the mask or build up the authentic self. And you, brave and beautiful you, will make the right choice eventually. Be it now or on your deathbed. We all realize soon enough.
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