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Your post opened something inside me. Not necessarily because I share the same reasons, but because I recognized the shape of them—the weight of contradictions that pull in opposite directions, the way effort and meaning sometimes hollow out the very things they seek to build.

It made me reflect on my own tensions—the frustration of only receiving what we work for when sometimes we just want life to choose us, the loneliness that deepens as we create meaning for others, the way striving turns into entrapment. I don’t know if these are the same as yours, but they feel like echoes of something familiar.

I hope it’s okay if I quote you in a post in the future. Your words stayed with me. Maybe that means something.

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