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If life is a game, then I've done a poor job of playing it. My time on Earth has been boring and uneventful. I've wasted my youth, sitting around doing nothing when I was full of life and energy. Playing video games, working at simple jobs, trading my time for just enough money to pay the bills and survive; not really learning anything or traveling anywhere. I also wasted my middle years, abusing my body with lack of exercise and junk food. I wouldn't treat an automobile as poorly as I've treated my body. It's no wonder it fails me now. The greatest sin I've made is allowing my mind to sleep
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looking back at this fuckkkkkk its quite a slap in the face
Magic, true magic, is safe and secure in the world for one simple reason; no one believes that it exists.
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Any sensible person seeing a key on the floor in front of a locked door would assume it was a key to something else. Most wouldn’t even try it in the lock.
That’s just the way it is. If you want to breathe air, then you can’t lay on the bottom of a pond. If you desire wealth, you can’t sit in front of your television screen and expect it to find you. If you want to learn how to play a musical instrument, you must pick it up and spend thousands of hours practicing with it. Entitlement is a problem both inside and outside of the Game…
Such a shame, to get stuck doing something for the rest of your life that you don’t love, simply because you invested time or money.
Being warm is much better if you have known what it is to be cold.
Trust as much as you can, knowing that the gift of trust will likely be the thing that ends it all for you someday.
“Belief is a remarkable thing. If we believe that we can do something, we can.
Life is really about moments; they come too rarely and they leave too soon.
