Love to me is knowing who you are and knowing who you ain’t.
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Like becoming warm after you’ve been cold.
I think I’ve only really experienced it on a parental level, and it feels like the rhythm of nature.
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Greed, lack of empathy. Same thing.
I’m the happiest right now. I can see that I’m in a kind of sweet spot: my parents are alive, my kids are little, my wife is hot and my body doesn’t hurt.
To kids I bullied in school. I have apologised and I will continue to. To repay those things karmically, I will watch my kids’ hearts like a hawk for signs of hardening or any distortions of empathy that they might develop.
Earnest, driven, Gemini.
Sacrifice the self and you will gain it. Serve the self and you will lose it.
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