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 Feb 2017 Spence Owens
Q
Foster optimism in the realest sense
What could be versus what will be come together and make friends.

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If the world was meant to be friendly, humans wouldn't exist
See the good and the bad in both safety and risks.

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Your friends will exalt you for who you aren't
Your enemies will curse you for who you are
You will learn to love who you want to be
And to be that person, a mix is key.

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Of all the things you care about, none of it matters
Of all the things that matter, you care for none
The former leads to a bad disposition
And apathy is born from the latter.

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You listen so as to reply
Reply, expecting to be heard
If you listen to listen alone
You'll find more meaning in a word.

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To give to all is to find and receive nothing
To give to none is to love and be loved by no one
Find the things in life you crave to be loved by
And build them up but ask nothing from.
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 Feb 2017 Spence Owens
Q
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,  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.

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