pursuing our dreams can be tough.
we are told we can accomplish anything but it ain’t easy,
i’ll font you that.
when our own parents and family don’t believe in us,
we turn to our friends to stand with us.
they pull out their pompoms and cheer you on from the sidelines.
it’s that support that help us to keep going.
what happens tho when a friend that you have supported in the past…

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i legit embarrassed myself today.
even though i was with one of my amazing friends,
i don’t think i’m ready to be “out there” yet.
hunter hit me up and asked me what i was doing today.
he hasn’t seen me in a minute so we went to lunch.
carmines.
i told him i wanted pasta.
we were having a great time and conversation when…

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i won’t lie to you,
when the red album by aaliyah first came out,
i thought it sounded really weird to me.
i’ll never forget going to tower records to listen to it…

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have you ever reached your boiling point?
like,
after keeping your emotions bottled up,
it takes one situation for you to scorch the earth.
some of us are dealing with tremendous stress and fucked up situations.
jackals have done us wrong and kicked us while we are down.
last night,
i blacked out on two friends because I had it with them last night…

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“I hate to drop this bomb on you,
but there is something I have to tell you…”

whenever I’ve heard those words in my life,
it was always associated with something awful.
it was said to me when I found out my mother had leukemia.
another time,
I was being told that a friend I trusted was slandering me behind my back.
the last was I was fired from that last job I was at.
that sentence has never been good for me.
that sentence came from my therapist today…

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there are some regions in the world that don’t get much sun.
it rains or very cloudy pretty much all the time.
when the sun does come out from its cloudy closet,
everyone including animals makes a beeline outside to indulge.
in this current climate tho,
with pandemics and economic woes,
where everyone’s mental health is being put through the wringer,
doesn’t it feel like…

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