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This is another sketch done up quickly, from November 2020. I want to make more of this and turn them into a series of motivational works and stories based on my own experiences, which is why I am creating cross-links between these.

Just as you can be what you eat, you can also be everything you think you are. Because of this, we can perpetuate aspects of ourselves regardless if they are damaging to us or hurting others around us.

Putting yourself down because of how you perceive others in a glowing light can make you feel left in the dark. I have always done this to some degree, finding myself really praising someone else, not seeing that they have their own problems and somehow assuming that I should be that way too, flawless in some sense. I still do this sometimes, but not as much as I used to.

Sometimes, I can cram these feelings and thoughts down my own throat without wanting to, but there are also times when I recognise very clearly that I'm doing it and in those situations I will usually either try to find advice from someone or try and step away from whatever is making me feel that way.

Avoidance is not always a good strategy for dealing with these feelings, even if sometimes it is the only viable strategy. And sometimes there's no advice or thing anyone can give or say to you that actually helps, either. It can take a much later moment of reflection to find the peace we wanted for when we weren't feeling so good. I believe it's that moment of later peace that helps us learn from ourselves.

I hope others can find good ways of dealing with their own issues. It takes time, but it's possible. For every negative feeling you have, there's likely a positive side to it that you haven't discovered yet. Though there are many facts to the world, I think there's also so much that is about perspective and not about absolute truth.

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