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Youth is the least democratic condition, and one day all of us will find ourselves evicted from it, kicked to the curb of adulthood, that tiring age of workouts and compromises.
Andrea Marcolongo • The Art of Running: From Marathon to Athens on Winged Feet
Adults forget how they processed time as children. When you’re a grown-up, time flies by. As a kid, the period between the beginning of a school year in September and winter break in December feels endless. I had lived in foster homes for just shy of five years, but it felt like twenty.
Rob Henderson • Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
i see it dripping all over me
covered in transparent yellow
sweet like mango
sticky like an addiction
the sugar rush it gives
they smell it from miles
they come over me.
finding me through my shedding skin
a flying chameleon of emotions glued with wings i made myself.
transmuted into a be. ing of person.
they used to hate bees
cause they are all women
but now
... See moreThen, as you grew up, you forgot how to be human. You forgot how to be bold and enthusiastic and loving and wildly alive. Your precious reservoirs of hope faded. Being ordinary became acceptable. The lamp of your creativity, your positivity and your intimacy with your greatness grew dim as you began to worry about fitting in, having more than other
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