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How to Be Happy When You're in an Unhappy Situation : zen habits
Being alive means feeling pain, feeling fear, feeling disconnected sometimes. Allow yourself to feel it, and imagine that this is what living feels like.
Because life isn’t numbness and avoidance, and it’s not all butterflies and sunshine.
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