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You Are Not Important - by Madalin - breadcrumbs

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wake up to stay alive

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. — Henry David Thoreau I’m surrounded by a sea of inspirational self love and positive affirmations on Instagram; they call on me to love myself. It’s all very nice and warm, but actually my favourite affirmations are a bit emo. To forget myself is freedom, to remember and hold onto my feelings and problems, my little human tragedies, is oh so boring! Sometimes I want to grab myself by the shoulders and shake myself. I don’t say, ‘you’re doing amazing sweetie’, I say: ‘hello! anybody there? Wake-up,…

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