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There will be bad days. Be calm. Loosen your grip, opening each palm slowly now. Let go.
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Be confident. Know that now is only a moment, and that if today is as bad as it gets, understand
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that by tomorrow, today will have ended. Be gracious. Accept each extended hand offered,
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to pull you back from the somewhere you cannot escape. Be diligent. Scrape the gray sky clean.
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Realize every dark cloud is a smoke screen meant to blind us from the truth, and the
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truth is whether we see them or not - the sun and moon are still there and always there
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is light. Be forthright. Despite your instinct to say "it's alright, I'm okay" - be honest.
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Say how you feel without fear or guilt, without remorse or complexity. Be lucid in your explanation,
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be sterling in your oppose. If you think for one second no one knows what you've been going
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through; be accepting of the fact that you are wrong, that the long drawn and heavy breaths
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of despair have at times been felt by everyone - that pain is part of the human condition
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and that alone makes you a legion. We hungry underdogs, we risers with dawn, we dissmisser's
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of odds, we blesser's of on -- we will station ourselves to the calm. We will hold ourselves
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to the steady, be ready player one. Life is going to come at you armed with hard times
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and tough choices, your voice is your weapon, your thoughts ammunition -- there are no free
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extra men, be aware that as the instant now passes, it exists now as then. So be a mirror
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reflecting yourself back, and remembering the times when you thought all of this was
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too hard and you'd never make it through. Remember the times you could have pressed
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quit -- but you hit continue. Be forgiving. Living with the burden of anger, is not living.
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Giving your focus to wrath will leave your entire self absent of what you need. Love
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and hate are beasts and the one that grows is the one you feed. Be persistent. Be the
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weed growing through the cracks in the cement, beautiful - because it doesn't know it's not
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supposed to grow there. Be resolute. Declare what you accept as true in a way that envisions
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the resolve with which you accept it. If you are having a good day, be considerate. A simple
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smile could be the first-aid kit that someone has been looking for. If you believe with
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absolute honesty that you are doing everything you can - do more. There will be bad days,
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Times when the world weighs on you for so long it leaves you looking for an easy way
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out. There will be moments when the drought of joy seems unending. Instances spent pretending
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that everything is alright when it clearly is not, check your blind spot. See that love
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is still there, be patient. Every nightmare has a beginning, but every bad day has an
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end. Ignore what others have called you. I am calling you friend. Make us comprehend
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the urgency of your crisis. Silence left to its own devices, breed's silence. So speak
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and be heard. One word after the next, express yourself and put your life in the context
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-- if you find that no one is listening, be loud. Make noise. Stand in poise and be open.
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Hope in these situations is not enough and you will need someone to lean on. In the unlikely
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event that you have no one, look again. Everyone is blessed with the ability to listen. The
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deaf will hear you with their eyes. The blind will see you with their hands. Let your heart
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fill their news-stands, Let them read all about it. Admit to the bad days, the impossible
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nights. Listen to the insights of those who have been there, but come back. They will
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tell you; you can stack misery, you can pack disappear you can even wear your sorrow -- but
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come tomorrow you must change your clothes. Everyone knows pain. We are not meant to carry
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it forever. We were never meant to hold it so closely, so be certain in the belief that
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what pain belongs to now will belong soon to then. That when someone asks you how was
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your day, realize that for some of us -- it's the only way we know how to say, be calm.
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Loosen your grip, opening each palm, slowly now -- let go.