<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058023473483958257</id><updated>2024-03-09T00:04:53.500+11:00</updated><category term="bono"/><category term="god"/><category term="manic depression"/><title type='text'>edenland</title><subtitle type='html'>Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it. &#xa;- Pearl Buck</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.edenriley.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6058023473483958257/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.edenriley.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Eden Riley</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11937511046069347576</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSiSJ-mNFjl0L0Xx4ZHUz9-Nw5ZrgX0rklvNup1COgH2zQ6t_t9fYOny3IBbvRx8KSI-sXEUsI2JrX1RKbiNpjp2eXY7QZNlbcCVa3X-BCzTT8rlHKyXaUmC7blZmCFPZRpZv8DtA1xBTJxYMypH1L75TO1ACZ7D2ovuws8EQUQQCIz8I/s220/IMG_7031.jpeg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058023473483958257.post-4029253278428073310</id><published>2024-03-08T23:02:00.002+11:00</published><updated>2024-03-09T00:04:19.845+11:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="bono"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="god"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="manic depression"/><title type='text'>You&#39;re Dangerous. Coz You&#39;re Honest.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPhA-UPpzDifz5EjqkS8HMIv8VnczWOKIFDtn_rIPs3vMgRIPvHXnWcY6HI_y-XYyGnqHryqTX_U1iUz5AC2AKTzg5SjZox-wW2Dq0GVbSNOWKh9mhqVVogC-j6Ab-qNiqFxJ3NX3byWZHaStq0N7FSOfO9Ri01wPYf9Na9wXt5DazzIzXyjfk0GAG5oQ_/s992/IMG_9737.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;700&quot; data-original-width=&quot;992&quot; height=&quot;283&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPhA-UPpzDifz5EjqkS8HMIv8VnczWOKIFDtn_rIPs3vMgRIPvHXnWcY6HI_y-XYyGnqHryqTX_U1iUz5AC2AKTzg5SjZox-wW2Dq0GVbSNOWKh9mhqVVogC-j6Ab-qNiqFxJ3NX3byWZHaStq0N7FSOfO9Ri01wPYf9Na9wXt5DazzIzXyjfk0GAG5oQ_/w400-h283/IMG_9737.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today I sincerely thought I was going to either have a stroke or a heart attack, I shit you not man I fell onto my floor, broke out into a cold sweat and started praying, telling God over and over that I don&#39;t wanna die please God don&#39;t let me die I&#39;m not finished yet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;It&#39;s a long story and will unfold eventually. Everything true always does.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Fuck I&#39;ve missed you, Computer. I&#39;ve missed me too but there you are and here I am and that&#39;s alllll that&#39;s left of the Wicked Witch of the West. Who knew a tornado could last a whole fucken decade? Ok so hey how&#39;s your faith, in everything, going? What&#39;s been up man, how&#39;s your daughter?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Let&#39;s make one thing abundantly clear: last time I had an illicit drug was last September and that doesn&#39;t count because someone &quot;slipped me a mickey&quot; as they say in Boomertown .. I woke up in hospital and again, long story but hey, all&#39;s well that ends well. Or as I used to say: all&#39;s fucked that ends fucked.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Last time I wrote my way to the top of the mountain I didn&#39;t know I had manic depression. Now I know - its embarrassing, and I get manic and paranoid and fucked-up and delusional and depressed but also save the world sometimes all in just one hour. &lt;i&gt;All of that does not mean I&#39;m using drugs&lt;/i&gt; ... just had to get that right out there first thing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;For some reason I *still* think I can save the world coz guess what I can, so can you. True story, bro. Sorry it&#39;s been so long since I was proper proper back but like someone said years ago: &lt;i&gt;&quot;It&#39;s easy to change the world but so hard to change yourself.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;I changed then saved myself and fuck it&#39;s good to be here.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;It&#39;s good.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;To just be.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Here.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;I&#39;ll be back tomorrow ... writing here every day until further notice.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;I love you and like Bono often says at the end of a U2 concert:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&quot;Thanks for stickin&#39; round.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

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