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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Too many times I had people try and make decisions for me. The assumption that I needed that was a big mistake!
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 April 2023 source ↗
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Unnecessary judgment.
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Generally speaking, envy, resentment, revenge, and self-pity are disastrous modes of thought. Self-pity gets pretty close to paranoia and paranoia is one of the very hardest things to reverse. You do not want to drift into self-pity.
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Meanness and lying.
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Like a dryer going off in your stomach.
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