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5kKitty wrote:The worst thing you write is better than the best thing you did not write.

Pompadour wrote:life is funny. i passed by a person i used to know really well in the corridor today, and neither one of us actually acknowledged the other's presence. i don't know how drifting-away happens, but it's weird to know that you're always dangling one foot in the currents your entire life, your other limbs being torn from your body every time the current drags you off--and those same stumps regrowing, like we're starfish, new presences filling those absences within us even if it's never the same.

life is funny. and i'm tired. and i'm going to bed.

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Pompadour wrote:it's this time of the year that whatsapp chat groups become exam support groups and i hug more people irl than i do all year.

the only thing worse than getting a bad grade is when you get decent grades and the people around you don't. and you repeat the same stream of logic other people would repeat to you under different circumstances and it all feels futile, but you have to know the other person is /okay/, because disappointment coupled with anxiety is a monster of a thing.

i wish we lived in a society where people did not associate self-worth with a letter on a piece of paper, where there wasn't the danger of your family swooping down over your shoulders and pouring acid over your agonising form and watching everything you'd worked for, years of work, crumbling like chalk.

pressure is real. pressure is dangerous. this should /not/ be what it means to get an education, but it's become as inherent a part of the system as the system itself.

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