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I am not a happy person or a sad person. I am not a calm person or a fearful person.

Maybe, Mystery is the purpose, the spine of everything.
(My derivation)

Seek warm people, not cool ones

Being, not doing. Lead me to
swarupa/svabhava distinction - swarupa is essential nature (same across all, undifferentiated ), svabhava is individual nature/disposition (the particular shape it takes in you vs. me). That pairing's built for exactly this same-essence/ different-expression split

Get a routine baggy enough to live in

Reduce a lot from your room, your life. You'll gain depth, clarity.

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you," wrote Angelou. Silence is pain. But it is a pain with an exit route. When we can't speak, we can write.
When we can't write, we can read. When we can't read, we can listen. Words are seeds. Language is a way back to life. And it is sometimes the most vital comfort we have.

Words are important.
Words can hurt. Words can heal. Words can comfort.
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To want to speak was to want to live. And in those depths I wanted neither. I just wanted to want, if that makes sense.
I remembered reading Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings at school.
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