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Balanced Diet

You have to be wanted to be cast aside.

You have to be hurt to be healed.

You have to be lost to be found.

You have to be ignorant to be taught.

 

You can be lonely in a crowded room.

You can cry with a smile on your face.

You can have nothing when you have it all.

You can be scared while being brave.

 

You must have it to lose it.

You must know it to forget it.

You must aim for it to miss it.

You must face it to defeat it.

 

Understanding, but yet misunderstood.

Loved, but yet unloved.

Alive, but yet dead.

Here, but yet gone.

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travis-barefoot
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Aug 10, 2013
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