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How to break bad habits
How habits are formed
The importance of consistency
I feel like I’m just sticking a Band-Aid over a festering wound. Only a matter of time before the whole limb gets amputated.
EMERY LEE
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Being between labels sometimes feels like I don’t belong anywhere, or I’m just making something out of nothing because I don’t like what society asks of me. I know it’s ridiculous, but it doesn’t always feel like that.
EMERY LEE
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My feelings haven’t faded, and I’m starting to think they never will, and now I’m tearing everything apart over the fear of not being able to hold on to the one thing I know I can’t have.
EMERY LEE
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How are you more confident driving than you are with human interaction?” I ask.
E smirks. “I guess that just tells you how terrifying humans can be.”
EMERY LEE
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I hate knowing that the people I love are only one relationship away from deciding I’m not that important anymore.
EMERY LEE
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I’m sure you won’t get shut out. I mean, you’re family. You were around first.”
I shrug. “Yeah, but first doesn’t always mean better.”
EMERY LEE
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back then, I was willing to be anything people told me to be. I didn’t mind that I was dying inside because I didn’t know how to live any other way. But how do you learn to breathe, then opt to be suffocated day in and day out?
EMERY LEE
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