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no one cares about the new year once it's over

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read this when your heart is breaking, when the skies are bleak and the clouds come in, when the world opens its mouth and swallows you whole. read this after spending twenty five hours in the library without sleep, read this when you have no strength to weep, read this at 4am alone, read this surrounded by people you don't know, read this in the dark, read this when you've fallen in love, read this when you've fallen out of it. read this on a day where nothing is special and you've woken up late and there's no time to eat breakfast and you've missed your train and the wind is harsh and the cold is hurting you. read this when your heart is pining for someone who doesn't know you exist. read this after screwing up your job interview (not while or during). read this when people talk too loud and you can no longer hear the beauty in their voices or find the meaning in their poetry. read this after breaking all your promises and disappointing everyone you know. read this when you have nothing left to say, when you can no longer hear the beauty in your own voice or find meaning in your own poetry. read this when you are old and gray. then stop reading and recover. remember that things will eventually get better as inevitably as they are bound to get worse. remember the past without getting stuck in it. remember that life is not as bad as you make it out to be. remember your loved ones all rooting for you secretly. think back to the days of wonder and mystery and hidden meanings waiting to be uncovered and wonder what has changed. then stop wondering and go out searching for beauty and meaning again