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Should I be comforting him?
What if I slip up? What if I say something like, Don't worry, Jeff, life is meaningless; it's strange and inexplicable that we exist to begin with. We are all basically dead already in the grand scheme of things, and our feelings of sadness are pointless—they are just how our meat sacks react to the chemicals in our bodies.

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Woah. Dark.

"It's important to remember every day that passes brings us closer to the day that we die."

"One day, you are going to die," Jeff's booming voice echoes through the church. "Everyone in this room will someday be dead."

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Akala ko patapos na. Nabanggit na yung title eh hahaha

I read once that fake smiling can trick your brain into believing you're happy, which can then spur actual feelings of happiness.

I want you to know that I wish I did. I hope you're able to feel even an infinitesimal bit of happiness today despite all of this.

"Okay." I nod. Maybe that's true.
"How do I occupy myself?"
"I find I feel less anxious when I spend my time trying to make the people around me happier," he shares. "Maybe you should try that."

"I'm probably the person people regret dating," I said.

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Wow. This does feel like the thought process of someone I know. 😅

That doesn't actually make this any less sad, it just means that there is so much potent sadness on earth that this becomes trivial. Everything becomes trivial. Nothing matters.

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At some point, it feels like I’m inside the head of someone I’m fond of. 🥺

Of course I'm a fraud. The fact that I'm able to carry myself through life without being crushed beneath the psychological weight of being alive proves that I'm a con artist. Aren't we all con artists?

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Woah woah. This is becoming more real than I expect hahahaha

Am I going to have to break it to sweet, decrepit old Rosemary that her friend Grace is dead?
I glance at the email again.
I haven't heard from you in ages!
That is because she is dead.
How are you?
Dead.

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Humorous tho. 😅