Why is attaining this career so tough. Why is it so hard to fix your bad habits and to be exceptional. Why does it feel like we've made the same mistakes over and over again and have faced the same setbacks.
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Idk let me ask my buddy Socrates
"To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous."
"and to be exceptional"
When you do eventually attain this career, you'll realize you're ultimately a random white-collar worker with an above average pay that will spend the majority of their lives getting worked to the bone and then die. Touch grass.
I feel like my whole life I fall just one inch short
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