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i remember when my parents would always ask what was wrong. half the time i didn't know. in my life there were always things wrong i guess. sibling rivalry, divorce, social awkwardness... easy to blame one of those even if it wasn't those. my parents knew i guess that it wasn't that but they didn't figure out what it was. in my late teens i was dx'd with depression and my parents could understand that (having it themselves,) but they still couldn't understand my unexplained mood swings. i think they, not understand, but accept it now.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
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