Do you sincerely believe that every person you've ever met thinks very highly of you?
You're somebody's dream, and you're somebody's nightmare. You're deeply flawed. And that's okay because everyone is flawed.
You cannot have light without dark. They coexist. And you must be comfortable enough in your own skin, in your own thoughts, to embrace all of you, imperfections, flaws, all of it; you must be open enough to embrace the human experience.
Once you do, you'll see everyone else around you as humans and not ideas of what you want them to be or what you thought they were. Because you'll know what it means to be human, above and beyond an amateur perfectionist's dream of naivety and false utopia.
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