What is acceptance?

[SoulCake.]

It is easier but it feels exactly the same as standing up. Same struggle.

What do you do with yourself?

Well at your age, what helped me was finding something to hold on to. It was stupid, but it helped me. I read Harry Potter and I always thought if this kid -I know fictional and all- can get through being bullied by his aunt and uncle, beaten up with a frying pan and still manage not to hate everything, so can I.

It helped me then. Now it's sports, I don't have a gym or a team, but I jog.

I got a P90X video from a friend, I can't do what that guy does but the yoga and stretch videos help.

I tried meditating and that helped a lot, but I lost my way and now I'm trying to get back to that.

You do something to occupy your mind in something better. Something good. Whatever it is.

You'll find friends like that, trust me.

Those friends will not judge you on who you were or might have been but on the person they are seeing in the present. By your actions and choices, rather than by what other people say.

Everyone is different, but this helped me. I'm 25 now and for me it got better and sometimes it's hard and feels like nothing changed but it gets better.

I used to read a lot, but now I mostly just play video games.
I also volunteer at an animal shelter. I feel better when I'm there, but as soon as I leave, it goes back to how it was before I was there.

I think you make a pretty good Navi ;)

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