5-5:10pm: Intro
5:10-5:35pm: Let’s try some simple, eased, Human conversation tonight.. What do you want from YOUR life? Explain….
5:35-5:50pm: How will you reach what you want to realize?
5:50-5:55pm: Did you get Tom Foreman’s book?? Have you started reading? Have you researched him at all? Googled him at the very least?
5:55-6:05pm: Close……
ASSIGNMENT: Read the first 4 chapters of My Year of Running Dangerously (Tom Foreman). Email me your thoughts.
#professormikey 
What’s wanted is only kept a want by the one wanting.
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Me…. Happiness. Freedom. Health. LOVE…
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Happy Thursday! How is everyone tonight?
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Having an amazing day, ’cause I(!!!) decided it’s going to be just that!!! How about you, my friend??
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I’m having a good day as well! I did lots of writing today and had a big scholarship interview! I’m glad you are having an amazing day haha
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🙂
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Hey y’all hope everyone is doing good today!!
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Whatup Jake… how’s biz?
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Crazy busy, doing another 12 hour shift today at work
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RESPECT.
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Hello everyone, hope you all are doing alright! My day has been very mellow. I am getting the habit to go to the USS campus to study and it is so pleasant to be there. It was so pretty with all the autumn colors I was surrounded by, the nature, some people passing by with their dogs. I spent more than 3 hours than until I realized I had to come back home to cook something and get ready for this class.
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That sounds like a great study location!
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That sounds fun and relaxing. I love spending time in nature especially during this time of year
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Howdy Everyone! How’s everyone’s week treating them? Excited for the weekend?
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Excited for more time, which the weekend does provide. Time for projects, time for creative, time for more words and exploration of scenes..
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Having the time to do stuff makes everything go smoother for me
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My week has been a roller coaster of emotions honestly! What about yours? Well, I was excited for the weekend but just found out we have a curfew and can’t go out past 10pm!!
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I know. Can you believe that sh/t?
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Its frustrating but if its gonna help then its worth it
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Frustration builds form.
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I’m not one to go poking at the rules too hard but the police are going to have to flatten my tires before I stop driving past 10 pm.
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Lol…. Love the spirit, but be careful..
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heck yeah! I’m ready and excited for the weekend!
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You should be excited for every day, my friend!!!
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Any fun plans
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haha I am! Weekends are the busy days of my job! It’s when I make good tips!
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Hell yeah. Get that bread
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Forget about value… go for LIFE. Wherever there’s life, and LOVE.. that’s where your walk should be. That should be the need and ceaseless feed of your beat.
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Hello everyone hope you are all having a relaxed evening. For me Family, Individuality, and KINDNESS. How are you all doing?
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Hey Finn!! Love these words.
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Hey Mike, thank you!
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Of course!!!
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Hey Finn, Im good thanks! How are you doing?
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Im doing good, just been catching up on a lot of school and sleep!
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Excited for tonight’s meeting, to learn more about what you want, and how you plan to be THERE.
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Life is about composition… building, constructing something, deciding and defining your own architecture. All is attainable and able to be assemble. Unless of course you choose to merely watch the buildings go up around you.
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Pretty uneventful day but I don’t consider that a bad thing, I just brought my brother to a dentist appointment. I did also get to packages today that had and a hoodie and some shoes I’ve been wanting for quite some time very hyped on that.
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That reminds me that I need to make a dentist appointment 2. My wisdom teeth have started to come in. I sympathize for toddlers because this pointy tooth is painful
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What’s up every one! My day was interesting cause I did a 3 hour hike in the dessert which was tiring but fun
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That sounds like a really fun day!
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Why want anything? Why not just take, and mold at your rhythm…?
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taking your own mold or rhythm has to be essential to create your full self. I mean it is scary to want something but taking that leap of faith to what you want is important to better understand you and your desires or motivations.
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What I want from my life is to find a place to call home everywhere I go and everyone I meet. I love the quote that says that home is not a place, it is a feeling. I want to share and spread all the love I have – which I know there is a endless source of it inside me. I want to be able to call everyone who has been in my life family because that is what they are. People who I can love unconditionally.
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I respect how you have a idea of what you want and you are working to get there
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Me as well. And thank you for these kind words, Jake.
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What do you want? Why? How often do you think about it?
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i want to move. I want to because i hate that everything is always the same in a small town. I think about it everyday
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How will you do this?
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I’ve already started that path. The first step was to do well in school so I could go to college. I chose somewhere out of state to further get out of this town lol. I’ve also done a lot of research to try to find a new place to settle once I graduate
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Good for you!!! Things don’t just happen. One has to do like you have and start stepping in the direction of their election..
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honestly I feel like sometimes I find myself not wanting anything for me but for other people…
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I think it’s safe to say I just cannot help myself when it comes to clothes, every time I have extra money instead of investing or doing anything smart I buy clothes. This hasn’t been a complete money pit, I’ve made roughly $1500 buying clothes I like and then selling them later so if I’m lucky I’ll get to continue.
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Try to calibrate a little, maybe?? I get it, it’s tough…
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Answering what I want is a hard question for me, I’m the most indecisive person ever. Heck I don’t even know what I’m majoring in. But my goal is to just be happy and comfortable with my life. Figure out what I want to do and love doing it.
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These are admirable aims, Jake. Cheers..
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as long as you are happy Jack, that is what really matters 🙂 and you can find happiness every where and anytime.
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Sorry for being a bit late was cooking the fam dinner and lost track of time. Had a relaxing day, hope everyone else did too.
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I would like for my life to be happy and healthy. I want to spend my life with my family and friends. I see my life as being positive and to try and make the negative positive. I see myself owning my own winery one day, living here in Sonoma County California on a small piece of property.
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How will you actualize this scene? Love how you wrote this, BTW..
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Thank You!
I will actualize not over night obviously, but over the next seven years. I should have the knowledge and the experience needed to start the building of my winery! Fingers cross
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I love the way you put your goals. Having your own winery and living in a small piece of property seems like a great life!
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thank you!
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I honestly think about it every day and try to be connected to it as much as I can. My dad always says that the best and only way to learn things is through people. Every single person will teach you something that you didn’t know. And in the worst case you are gonna learn how to not be like then, but see, still learning. And I love that. I love to talk to people, to connect with them.
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Dad is right!!! RESPECT.
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I want a carefree life haha but that’s asking a lot but not much. You could say being carefree is a state of mind. I guess for me carefree is having a nice house with a yard and a tree house in the back for the kids.
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Side note…. I’ve started communicating with our next author, Tom Foreman. And he’s really, really nice!!! Don’t be surprised if he joins us on a zoom….. Just FYI, ’cause I got it like that.
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what that’s sick! fingers crossed.
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No.. he’s totally down. I’m doing a call with him after the holiday. Again, he’s super, super nice. Really like talking with him.
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What??? That would be awesome! Fingers crossed
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Wait actually! That is awesome!
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I don’t even really know what I want, honestly I feel like I want something different for myself every month and i hate that I am so indecisive because I wish that I was better able to analyze myself and be able to really know what I want out of my life.
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Think in the bright side.. If you don’t really know what you want in your life, you can be ANYTHING! You can keep trying out everything that cross your life and decide if you like it or not. You have infinite possibilities. Again, as long as you are happy – here and now
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I agree the options are endliess maybe that is why I am having such a hard time because I always feel like something could be better when i never try to really see if I like the thing in front of me.
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What I want from my life at the age of 18 it’s a difficult question to answer with the amount of pressure from various people you feel to make the “right” choice. Ideally I would like to work for a tech company or maybe a luxury brand and live out in Texas or the East coast. If ever given the opportunity I would want to change the world for the better but that’s one of the hardest things a person can do.
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in what way would you change de world for the better?
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Have everyone value love and generosity over EVERYTHING.
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I know i don’t want to feel stuck in the same loop of life everyday. I want to feel like I’ve lived life the the fullest I can before I actually settle down. I do want a family but I know I probably won’t be a full time stay at home mom because do want the “best of both worlds”. I still don’t know exactly what I’m going to be or how I’m going to get there but I have a rough draft/outline of how I want it to look so I’ll continue to grow and build off of what I got.
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If you’re stuck, you decided that.
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I really want to collaborate with people who are interested in making short movies or documentary style videos.i spent last 3 years trying to learn the basics of filmmaking and now I want to apply what I have learnt in telling story from either screenplay or documentary.
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I just tried to post a response and the site crashed did it show up?
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Yes it did, the website keeps acting up for me too
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F/cking WordPress….
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I think so…?
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What I want immediately is different from what I want from life. What I want immediately is to move, to travel, and to satisfy my need for adventure. But what I want from life is different. My. goal is to be happy. not just superficially, but truly happy with everything life has given me. There are so many people in this world that have just focused on how to make themselves successful in the conventional sense, but have no regard for their emotional success.
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I like how you have an immediate goal and a long term goal.
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I totally get where you are at!
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totally agree with you Nianna. What does successful mean anyway?
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Success all depends on what your goal was in the first place
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Good question… to me it’s being in love with everything you do and everything around you.
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Who got the book???? Have you started reading??? What have you heard??? Look him up on Youtube now, cross-referencing the book’s title…
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I have the book but the title put me off so I waited to start until we were assigned reading
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😦
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I don’t enjoy running and assumed that was what it was all about, but I’m getting a better understanding already
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Didn’t get the book, been working crazy. But i got the chance to look him up, can’t wait to read about him
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Why?
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I am interested about how he is going to tell his story and what he learned from it.
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WHO GOT THE BOOK???????????????
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I’ve had it since you told us to get it in the syllabus, thank gosh I didn’t loose it in my mess of a room lol
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lol…. That’s good!! 🙂
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I have but I haven’t start reading yet. I was waiting to finish the other three books I was reading previously lol
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The idea of something into something you didn’t expect really interests me… this book is great!!
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I read some reviews of this book and it seems it is a great book.
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What I want in life is to be happy in my dreams to come true. I want my family to be set for life I want the best for myself and I also want to be happy
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I have the book!
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Hey y’all ! sorry I’m late. What I want from my life is success and happiness.
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Whatup Victor.. thanks for coming. How do you plan on holding this success and happiness you seek?
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I haven’t started reading, but I will! lol
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I plan on putting overtime in setting myself up for success at my work or school and family and even a relationship. By being the best me and loving more also being slow to anger. Not getting to comfortable in one spot but also being content with the career I chose. Finding a balance for me, family, work, and school with also doing the things I love. I apologize if this was long but also a great question to think about Professor Mikey!
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I got the book this morning and read the first couple of chapters. Explaining the challenge with his daughter to run the marathon with, as well as how his brother challenged him to the same marathon when Tom was younger seemed pretty ironic. I think a perspective from someone who used to run long distance when he was younger and came back in his fifties to run a marathon with his daughter in college is not only humbling, but entertaining and unorthodox that makes for a suspenseful and hilarious story
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I keep wondering, how exactly does one run dangerously. Is it the manner, location, or duration that have to do with it.
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Guess you have to read to find out…
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Lol guess you’re right
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I will do some research on him tonight! I might even writing about him on my page.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIC2DclgFQo&t=160s here is one of his videos I’ve watched that he talks about the book and reads some parts of it. You may like it 🙂
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that looks great I will check it out!
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Good job, Debora!! Thanks for posting!!
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Perfect!!! Thank you!
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Yes… Much appreciated!!!
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Realizing dreams is what makes life worth living in my opinion, without goals there is no direction in my life. I keep receiving ads about “replacing a 9-5” in 21 days and it just makes me sad that people really believe ads like this. To try and take shortcuts to what most would consider large dreams just isn’t real not to mention there is no sense of achievement or struggle to reach your goal. The only way in my opinion to reach a goal is to try again and again until you reach it, through effort and determination.
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couldn’t. have. said. it. better!!!!!!
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I didn’t know this but he is an Emmy awarded journalist.. didn’t know you could even get an Emmy award for being a journalist so that is pretty interesting.
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Lol didn’t know writing Emmys existed either
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Not necessarily for writing, for reporting and bringing news and information.
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Yep!! He’s one of the best, currently.. my opinion.
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omg he wrote a letter for Obama every single day since the first day of his first term. 1460 letters lol
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that is actually crazy… he must’ve reallly liked him
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“I wrote about things that were important, like unemployment, Afghanistan and women’s rights. I also wrote about things that were trivial, like sports, favorite foods and my yearly battle with Christmas lights.
The tally: 1,460 letters, well over a half-million words, or enough to fill about seven novels. Laid out as one line of text, these letters would stretch almost 3½ miles or considerably longer than the inaugural parade route.”
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This is great!!
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WOW…
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Maybe why he was so responsive and receptive to my letters, lol..
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This covid thing has me nervous, and I’m finding his writing helps me forget or remove myself from it…
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reading is supposed to make you feel like youre in another world. It helps you forget about all the negatives you have going on
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I agree! It take my mind off what’s going on.
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Same way reading Sedaris and Irby… I am excited to start this book!
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Ive found reading has helped me alot to unload from stress from other classes and life… finding happiness in my writing is still going to be a project but I am trying to get there as fast as possible…
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I bought the book off of google play and I don’t really know anything about this author yet. Just from some of the responses I’m reading he seems like a very interesting character.
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I agree. The more I look into him the more excited to start reading I get
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I am too!
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Read like you’re the author reading their own work. If you want to be better at reading….
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Stop thinking so much….. Just write. And write more letters to people, to anyone… Shoutout to Debora!!!!!
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Definitely!! Actually we should get back to this habit to send people letter. I am amazed by what he did!
Check it out https://www.cnn.com/2013/01/18/politics/foreman-last-letter-to-president/index.html
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Enjoy the rest of your evening everyone!
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Life readies us for telling stories. Sad so many of us don’t think we have something to narrate..
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Enjoy your night, enjoy the reading.. ENJOY YOUR LIFE.
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Thank you. I hope you also have a wonderful evening.
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thank you i will do my best lol enjoy your reading as well!
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Great class look forward to reading this book!
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Have a great evening guys! Enjoy life as much as you can!
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❤️
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