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There is nothing wrong with you. I need you to know this before I can say anything more. You are the most amazing thing in this world. Never let anyone tell you different. I NEED you to believe this, because everyone deserves to experience this feeling. Especially you. If nobody has ever told you this, I am telling you now, and you need to take it to heart because, I swear it to be true. I want you to bear with me for a second when I say that: external validation is the ultimate deception. It will never make YOU happy. It is not real. It is the unequivocal death of joy. The pursuit of this; is the pursuit of the doomed and the damned. You will never be happy until you realize that there is nothing in this world better than yourself. This is not to stroke your ego, or instill some type of messiah complex, but to simply make you aware of how important you actually are. This is not some kind of delusional whisper of sweet nothing into your suffering ears, this is the undeniable truth. Period. Prove me wrong. You’re not attractive enough? Looks are a scam. A con written by the gods. Looks can never last, and those who base their value off of looks will either die an untimely death, or live long enough to see themselves become worthless. Sure their looks might get them laid a couple times, but what is intimacy without love? It is equivalent to eating, or sh*tting. It is a meaningless, animalistic, momentary peak that leads to a dark malevolent valley. You will never experience this valley, since you now know why it exists. You will find love. You will not crumble under this pressure of the avalanche. You will climb atop your adversity, and once you have ascended you will see magnificent salvation. I also know this to be true. I know you don’t believe me, but I also know you’re wrong. Why not? You’re not intelligent enough? Tell me about what you don’t know. Then let me ask you this: what is intelligence without wisdom? What is a book without words? What are words without meaning? What is meaning without you? Nothing. “True wisdom is knowing what you don’t know”. Think about this quote, and again proceed to tell me what you don’t know. I don’t hear ignorance, I hear awareness. I hear WISDOM. I can’t fathom how you could think this last thought: you are not good enough. This thought is treason to reason. It is the one thought that could end the entire world. It is Lucifer incarnate. Nobody sees you as evil as you see yourself through your fiery mirror. Anybody who tries to dissuade you from this belief is pulling you down into their own personal hell which they have meticulously constructed. You need to promise me you won’t let them do this. Tell me why you’re not good enough. Tell me the wide-reaching effects of your shortcomings. Are you done? Have you finished imparting your fundamentally flawed perception of reality with me? Good, because I would like to tell you the truth now. Is that okay? Thank you. Tell me how many years have you been alive? Seems like a long time. A lifetime even. Now, tell me how many years the world has existed. What microscopic fraction of history belongs to the things that you have done wrong? Now try to grasp, please just try, how many things had to happen RIGHT in order to get you here. Not just the place where you are currently manifested, reading the rant of some lunatic, but what happened in order to get you HERE. On this earth. In this world. Living and breathing and thinking about how inadequate you are. Everything in history up until this point in time has said “this life needs to be”. You are the chosen one, hand-picked by centuries of destiny. How could you possibly doubt that? The world, up until this point, has existed to create you. Whether you believe it or not, it is true, and I will fight you until you believe it, because you have to believe it. Once you do, then my job is done. But, until then, I will wave your flag as you battle against that tyrant in your head who yells “shame” while all of eternity screams “perfection”.

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