When your sense of self and happiness comes from within and isn't a roller coaster ride dependent on others or circumstances, you approach life differently. You make better choices. You draw to you the people and situations that matter. The others, they fall away.
It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I__ been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.
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It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I__ been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.
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