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every day it gets a little easier - by vincent huang

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some of my friends prefer the alternate saying “it never gets easier, you just get stronger”. i think these sayings are communicating the same thing and don’t believe the distinction is important, but pick whichever phrasing you like more i suppose also on mit admissions during the summer, fall, and winter of 2020 i refused to clean my mouth. i never brushed my teeth or flossed or rinsed or used mouthwash, and no dentist ever yelled at me because we were in lockdown so i never saw any dentists. my gums became weaker and weaker, my breath began smelling worse and worse, and i noticed these things and merely accepted them. back then i’d told myself that you had to brush and floss every day for the rest of your life to have good oral hygiene, and there was no way i was going to maintain such a long streak when just doing so for a single day was excruciatingly boring, so i might as well give up now, right? during the fall and winter of 2020, i couldn’t work for more than a few minutes at a

every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part vincent huang May 20, 2023 19 Share the title and subtitle come from my favorite scene of bojack horseman some of my friends prefer the alternate saying “it never gets easier, you just get stronger” . i think these sayings are communicating the same thing and don’t believe the distinction is important, but pick whichever phrasing you like more i suppose also on mit admissions during the summer, fall, and winter of 2020 i refused to clean my mouth. i never brushed my teeth or flossed or rinsed or used mouthwas

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