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      Imagine you have a shovel. And a mountain of shit.

      Once you start working through the mountain of shit, eventually you can see the shit that was occluded by the mountain of shit.

      It may be bigger. It may be smaller. But there’s a lot there and you have to work through it anyway.

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        You dig and dig. Years go by. Decades. You look at your shovel, its covered in shit. You look closer, it is actually made of shit.

        Slowly you look down at your arms, legs and body. Youre shit. You turn around, and a new person is coming over with a shovel made of shit to dig you up.

        Circle of life man… circle of life.

        Fortunately the creators of south park created a shitless world when they released the episode “you’re getting old” June 8th 2011. Why else would you air such a episode unless life was actually perfect? Clearly the people struggling are the ones who are shit. Obviously, can’t theyjust see how great everything is for everyone? What’s wrong with those people?

        Yup, nothing can be shit for the rest of time. Utopia. Nirvana. Shangrila.

        Thank you for your community service Matt Stone and Trey Parker. You fixed it all.

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        And sometimes disturbing the shit makes other shit that you haven’t had to deal with in a long time come crashing down on your head.

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          And then you realize you put in all that effort to identifying your shit piles ahead of time and no one’s there to give you a cookie for your hard work so you have to do it yourself, even thigh that’s it’s own pile, on top of the work of shoveling other piles.

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              TBH that’s where I am. After learning and slowly coming to terms with the fact that I was in an abusive relationship for over a decade, I’m now at the point where I want to do things she prevented me from doing.

              Like buying a sports car. I can’t really afford it, but I’m going to talk about it until I can.

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                Haha same actually, 5yrs here.

                Good luck on the sports car!

                I’m just happy to try new stuff without that lead vest of anxiety. Go skating, get back into backpacking, drop a glass and just sweep it up without the world ending. You know, simple things.