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i want to be okay

romanticize a quiet life by Mel N. '24, MEng '25 i want to be okay December 28, 2021 in Miscellaneous the truth— you want to be needed so badly that you think you might choke on it. you need to be wanted so badly that you think you might keel over and die. your grief at being neither splits you open. sometimes you feel like a wound that will never heal. the problem— grief goes hand in hand with being a hopeless romantic. always mourning a thousand little losses, day after day. you idealize everything and you build up these unrealistic expectations in your head, and you have the nerve to get di

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