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Feb 2017
If family would turn you away and friends leave you to die
If the world fleece you down and colleagues wring you dry
Find peace and pleasure within yourself, find the strength to try
To be your own family,Β Β friend, and work mate with no help from outside.

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True self-sufficiency is needing yourself alone
But interacting with others regardless
To ease the heavy loads of life.

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Remember that life is important in the now
But never in the later or a larger scale.
You are what you make of the present
Despite your past and to shape your future.

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There is no purpose to life besides what you give it
There is no way to waste time, you're young as **** until you die.

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Rather than worry what others might think of what you do
Worry instead what you will think of yourself
When you have done everything or nothing at all.

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This is not a road to sprint or run upon
This is not a marathon or an endurance race
This is simply meandering in the way you choose
You set your own duration and pace.

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When you can do nothing at all and the world lies on your shoulders
Breathe.
It is all you will ever be required to do.
Q
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Q  North Carolina
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