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Precision and accuracy need each other in order to be useful. Emotion and thoughts need each other to find meaning. It's okay to want what you want and not to get it. The point is to at least try hard enough that it's possible.

Desire is a complicated thing, and it can be a wonderful guide to what you need, but it's important to distinguish between the two. Be honest and follow your heart, and the universe will show you things even better than your wildest dreams. You know this from experience.

You don't control the tides of the world, so don't try. Instead be like the water, go with the flow. In doing so you'll stay out of your own way, allowing the others who want to bump into you to get through to you. If you try to push through to them, you can make waves that just push them farther away.

If you're never scared, you're not challenging yourself enough. If you never feel hurt, you aren't trying things to make you stronger. Those feelings teach you more than they can ever ruin you.

shame

despair 

guilt

These things are just feelings sprouting from disappointment, and feeling disappointment doesn't mean you actually should be disappointed in yourself. If you can embrace that, disappointment can be a much better guide than it has been an enemy in the past.

A feeling doesn't have to be mutual to be real. It doesn't have to be equal to matter. We all need different things because we are all infinitely individual. Nothing could be more beautiful than the diversity that arises in the endless milieu we can share with one another, especially when we share it with the ones we love.

But not everything needs to be shared. Not talking about something doesn't always mean you're hiding it. Some things are better off left unsaid, so be slow to speak, allow yourself to annunciate what you've had time to give thought.

Some thoughts are better off kept to ourselves. Some people are turned away from the sight of a heart on a sleeve. They don't have to look and you don't have to show them. Accept your insecurities - remember others have them too. Have compassion for yourself and you'll be content with you.

The edge is a very fun place to be. But it's also the easiest place to be cut. Again, that's the point. When you put yourself out there, hurt is part of the game. Treat it with the proper caution, manage the risk of it, and even what most might think is too extreme to be worth trying can be enjoyed safely.

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