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No one telling me they need something, for me to do something, take them somewhere, buy them something that they "have to have now"

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Comments, statements, so-called advice that I have heard all of my life. 

Passionate, intense, introspective, analytical…words that...&lt;br/&gt;
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Ever feel like you’d like to carry parts of your past into your present?  Or stop yourself mid-action because it just came straight out of your childhood?  Well that sort of thing happens to me a...&lt;br/&gt;
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No, I don’t know what I’m going to do with my life!  OK??

I feel as if my life has taken on multiple paths, all going in different directions, waiting for one of them to become solid and that...&lt;br/&gt;
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the crabby stage...

the mean, nothing-will-satisfy-me stage...

I don’t wake up ready to fight or ready to yell, but lately, it just seems that when it comes to...&lt;br/&gt;
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It's that time of year again.......the time in which I walk into my closet and begin to stare down my clothes as if to say "I'm ready for a fight!"

And it doesn't matter what type of mood I walk...&lt;br/&gt;
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