But, Jack, please don’t forget to take care of yourself. I can already feel you rolling your eyes, and I haven’t even finished writing this yet. And I’m not talking about your OCD. I’m talking about you. Go be selfish. Buy a dozen poppyseed bagels and share them with absolutely no one. Waste a few hours making a cat tent out of a T-shirt. Take a day off work to read a trashy book you’ll forget as soon as you finish the last page. Make art that is useless and silly and important. You deserve every good thing, even when you’re having dark thoughts. You deserve to be happy, even when you aren’t
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