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Saturday, November 2, 2013 at 8:49 PM
The worst part of running away is having to go back.
When I want to forget something for a while, I thought the best thing to do is detach, as if that is easy. It's hard, of course, when thoughts you want to escape from keep up with you in the deep hours of the night, when the pain is the most real. But I learned to live in a world where pain is present, where pain is not something we desperately remove in our system, because in one form or another it will always be there.
The best thing to do is learn how to survive. The best thing to do is learn how to live with the pain. The best thing to do is to face it head on, because running from it won't make it go away.
I like mornings where I am renewed. These are rare mornings, mornings when suddenly I am gifted with a new sense of enlightenment, the kind of rejuvenation that stays. Somehow, I suddenly understand. These are mornings when I reach the end of the process.
I am not scared of pain. I embrace it, even if it isn't my friend. I keep my enemies close. When the deal is done, they liberate me.
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“In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Moreover, I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant land to me. Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits.”
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