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Dear one,

I heard you again last night. You should sleep. The way you wander and stare out the window like there’s someone out there who can fix you, it isn’t healthy.

Exercise. Eat better. You have to smile more. Everyone gets sad sometimes.

Stop staring at the ceiling. The only thing in the ceiling is that same fantasy of throwing yourself into the ocean. Of being dashed into peace by the rocks.

Not everything is about you.

You think you’re the only one who takes a knife to their face once in a while? The only person whose brain is not entirely theirs? Who goes mute for weeks at a time?

You think you’re the only one who doesn’t deserve love? Who knows the people you love deserve someone who isn’t broken? 

But the sun is shining.

You have to look on the bright side of life.

Joey