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Here’s the thing about good guys. They don’t tell you they’re good guys.
I wondered if I should say anything else, but I wasn’t sure what else to add. It felt like an unsatisfying ending to a great adventure, but, to my constant dismay, life wasn’t actually an epic musical, and maybe mutual waving was just how things ended sometimes in real life. The story a little bit bumpy, the people a little bit changed, but no orchestral finale to play us off after our last exchange of meaningful words.
My greatest failure was the time I tried to hold myself accountable for somebody else’s failures. My greatest failure was the time I failed myself. I’ve learned to ask for help. I’ve learned falling down doesn’t mean you can’t get back up again. But as for that relationship, I wouldn’t do anything differently, because I wasn’t the reason it failed.
another thing he has failed at doing is taking my identity, and taking my voice. Those are mine. And with them, I can always turn my failures into strengths. That’s kind of the point, isn’t it?
