Passion sets us off. It kicks the home out of the body, points it down the road, and encourages the discovery of horizons far from our door. It is the magic of life, and it deserves to be followed. If you do, life will surprise you with its beauty.
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Why do I hold onto the idea that doing “more productive” things that I rarely do will make me happy? Every day I wake up thinking of what I have to do, or what I should do, more precisely, and after compiling this list I go about living with it constantly hovering over my head.
I am at the start of a trip I cannot begin to fathom, the precipice of departure—at the gate of my hometown airport.
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The number of things you have to do only reveals itself when you know you’ll be gone. People have meditated on this thought through the lens of death, and it makes me wonder, is this upcoming trip the death of myself?
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Hear me out: thoughts are attention-seeking. They want to be heard, want to be found, just like the one ring forged in the fires of Mount Doom. Sideline, is this why the ring and mountain are separated from the eye? I know Tolkien didn’t like allegory, but I’m digging this perspective. Ahem. Okay, okay. So
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