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I'm fucking perceptive sometimes, but it's never at the right moments. If I really knew this then, if I really internalized it then I wouldn't be where I am right now.
"Why stop loving? This world is full of hate enough as it is. We could spend our lives trying to define ourselves in opposition to one another, to stand at ends, to antagonize each other and say, "THIS IS WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT."
Most people I know seem to want to define themselves this way. They want to know what makes them special. They stand away, they set themselves apart. By constantly striving to define ourselves in opposition to one another, we gradually lose the ability to relate to each other. The less we can relate to each other, the less we can love each other. Soon we will only be able to love ourselves, and we will only love people who make us love ourselves more - people who validate our experiences, people who agree with us, people who supposedly understand us. We won't seek to challenge what we know, what we take for granted. We won't want to, because it'll challenge us and our unique individuality, it'll challenge the very line that gets drawn between Me and You."
"Why stop loving? This world is full of hate enough as it is. We could spend our lives trying to define ourselves in opposition to one another, to stand at ends, to antagonize each other and say, "THIS IS WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT."
Most people I know seem to want to define themselves this way. They want to know what makes them special. They stand away, they set themselves apart. By constantly striving to define ourselves in opposition to one another, we gradually lose the ability to relate to each other. The less we can relate to each other, the less we can love each other. Soon we will only be able to love ourselves, and we will only love people who make us love ourselves more - people who validate our experiences, people who agree with us, people who supposedly understand us. We won't seek to challenge what we know, what we take for granted. We won't want to, because it'll challenge us and our unique individuality, it'll challenge the very line that gets drawn between Me and You."