Feels good =)

Why is it real

It doesn't mean shit if you don't act upon it. So who cares?

I'm a hard worker but I won't bother getting a job either :)

If you loved them, you’d be with them. Oh how I wish my former lover would confess this to me...

I'm not sure what kind of idealized version of love some of you have. To put this poster on blast and try to discredit their feelings comes across pretty shallow. Sometimes the most courageous thing you can do is to admit your feelings to yourself.

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Nope. The most courageous thing one can do is act on one's intentions, wishes and hopes. To speak truth. To put it on the line and take the risk. That is brave. What you describe is not.
It's safe, though. Risk-free. And nobody has to know.
That is the opposite of courage. And validating it just enables this pervasive obsession with safety and risk-aversion that I find so contemptible.
This "rich life of the mind" stuff is for pathetic losers, which is what "A Confederacy of Dunces" was obviously about.
Truly, the meek (and the weak) shall inherit the earth... Once the strong and brave have wrung every ounce of value from it and only a worthless husk remains.

You have no idea what their life has been like or where it goes from here. Be thankful yours has been charmed enough to allow you to confuse an undertaking of suppressing love for weakness.

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Suppression driven by fear and ego.
I didn't learn that from a charmed life. One doesn't.
I learned it through pain and regret and mistakes. I learned not to accept that behavior in myself, when I catch it. I understand it because I've done it, and refuse to tell people it's OK just to make them feel good.
Life should not be about validation - that ends badly. It's what got us so many egotists.
If somebody called them on their bullsh*t and held them accountable for their mistakes, they would probably end up much more decent humans for it.

I’m with you! Far too many people are so afraid of risking anything that they spend their lives not really living. I love that quote that says something along the lines of “But what if I fall? Oh darling, but what if you fly!?”