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In a world full of wannabe lions, don't be afraid to love your inner hippo.

If the thing you need doesn’t exist that’s not a sign that you are too strange & broken to be fixed—it’s a sign inviting you to invent it. This is how we give ourselves agency. This is how we learn who we are. This is how we begin to trust in our weirdness.

Practice making decisions for yourself w/o first asking what everyone else would do… Pick up wisdom from others…but don’t be afraid to take a new path or find a new way of progress.

…quite often when I have plans w/s’one & they back out at the last minute I am secretly elated b/c I get credit for looking like a functional human while not having to do whatever it was I probably didn’t want to do on the first place.

If your habits seem weird as fuck to everyone else but you’re still getting your shit done & you’re happy w/it, you win… It is however a different thing entirely if your habits often make you miserable & anxious. If this is you then we are the same…

Don’t be afraid to reach out to others. Remember when you were little & you’d see another kid at the playground & say wanna play? & then you’d spend 3 hrs gleefully creating a intricately detailed world where you were royal orphans attempting to find the evil wizard who murdered your parents & transformed you into magical lion cubs & it was so much fun then later you realized you never even asked their name?