When I'm feeling pitiful, or desolate, and I don't realize what I'm doing and I don't know where I'm going, I envision the Cool Awesome Future Version of Myself simply telling my present self, "It's alright. You just gotta snatch that giraffe by the ears and ride it on out.
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