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copyreading old journal entries. a nice thing about journals is that i get to surprise myself with the ideas i've written down when i was younger (wow, i SAID that?! wow, i knew how to use that word?! aack, what was i thinking? facepalm!). truly, more often than not it could be really shallow (like several pages of why i thought my parents were wrong for not permitting me to join a school event written with the fierce intensity of an angry teenager resigned to her fate yet intent on plotting revenge hahaha :P) and the grammar, ghastly, yet sometimes i do get smitten by certain moments of acute perception and wisdom.

2011.04.28 

people create relationships because they need a witness to their lives. for who else would testify that you have lived but the people you've forged relationships with. who else would testify that you were once the person who picked a starfish from the beach and smiled. who else would testify that you did laugh, cry, sneeze, or make crazy jokes. because no matter how superlative you think you've lived your life, if not for them, you're as good as having never lived at all.

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