“It’s easier to give up,” she said. “Live behind walls and be guarded. I think about giving up a lot. Of course I do. But I just have this stubborn belief that life is meant to be lived. We’re not meant to be perfect or even happy all the time. The reason joy can feel so incredible is because we know the absence of it. Everything exists in contrast. If I stop being open to pain, I stop being open to all the other things I love about life. I hate being rejected. I wish my career had taken off already. But I refuse to not try. I refuse to close myself off to life. It’s not because I’m stronger
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