My Magnum Opus & Eeyore Essay 1.0

Photo by Zdeněk Macháček on Unsplash

First published on Medium.

Trust must be earned. Though buying it is more efficient.

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Every day is a chapter in our life. Every night is a rewrite we failed to complete.

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Going home to visit family is much easier than staying there with them.

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Doing an equal amount of the household chores has always been my goal as a faithful and dutiful husband; the difficult thing for me is the math.

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I have been afraid I may break the law my whole life; luckily for me, this day is almost over.

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Any time I yell something in anger, people seem to take it the right way.

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Never do something to others they would do to someone like you.

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Do not go mental into that good night; chant it to yourself as much as you need to, now that the four years of orange beelzebub have ended.

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There is nothing we cannot do if we set our minds aside.

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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, get the vacuum!

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Living in the past is more likely if the future is too distant.

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For me, finding love was always simpler than anyone reciprocating it.

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There is nothing for me to pass on to future generations, except for this period piece I saved right to the last, here.

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Make way for the present, before the past catches up again!

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We cannot fear what is ahead of us, unless we look behind us to see what we have endured. Everyone, heads forward!

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By Richard The Chwalek.

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