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"You know, I wonder if she likes me."

"Why, dude?"

"Well, she just sent me a topless selfie."

"Whoa, dude!"

"Yeah, I know. So difficult to tell, right?"

"...Dude."

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Random neighborhood kid: You look like Harry Potter.

Me: I do?

Kid: Yeah, as an adult. Your hair and your glasses.

Me: Well, there was worse things than being compared to Daniel Radcliffe.

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Nothing to lose makes someone dangerous.

Something to live for makes someone inspired.

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Every time I reconnect with someone, it's like I just managed to save a piece of personal history from the charred remains of a burned house. Feels good.

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Had a bit of a set back. But also thought of a way around it in the future. A little flexibility of mind in pursuit of a goal keeps the boulders from running over you.

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I've got enemies up to my eyeballs, but no one really worthy of being a "rival." Someone with whom I can compete (in a friendly and sporting manner) to encourage me to bring my A game. I feel that might help my growth.

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I am turned off by negativity. Including my own.

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Reading is easy. Listening is hard.

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I am grateful for all the friends who have remained by my side.

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Totally proper self care for anxiety: tell yourself you're weak and worthless until you shame yourself into being better.

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I am not a free man.

I am a number.

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Anyone else find it weird when you say "a couple" and someone responds with, "How many?"

I said a couple! That means 2!

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When planting seeds for the future, make sure to check they're not land mines.

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That feeling when you see a small animal in the road, shift lanes to avoid it - and then they throw themselves under your tire just as you pass by. My car is not an assisted suicide helper!

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I have friends. I am loved. I am capable of making new friends.

I forget this too often, I think.

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The magnitude of my loneliness grows with age. I'm a Doctor without a Companion. It's about as awful as you think.

Happy Halloween

On Halloween candy growing up: I always saved mine, like a dragon hording gold. I'd eat a few pieces at a time, but never large quantities. I'd usually have candy from last Halloween left come the next Halloween, which only made my stockpile larger. This wasn't because I didn't have much: my dad and I developed an efficient house hunting algorithm every year around town that got me a very full bag. It was simply that on the matter of "having your cake or eating it," I chose to have more than eat.

The idea of Halloween candy all being gone in a few days has always puzzled me, because it was so incongruous with what my behavior was as a kid. It wasn't until I got older that I realized what I did wasn't typical.

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Odd quirk of mine: grocery shopping concludes more enjoyably when I get to pack my own groceries at the checkout.

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My anxiety toward people is less about the actual interaction part (I tend not to be shy) and more "What are they REALLY thinking about me?"

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If someone is hurt and incorrectly assigns blame for that pain to you, you are very much allowed to point out their error.