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 on one hand, conversation to spark insight.
 
 on the other, being connected to me.
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

--- #1 fediverse/2103 ---
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 @user-192 
 
 You are dynamic and interesting and I enjoy hearing from you 
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--- #2 messages/925 ---
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 but also, somehow, the coolest, kindest person you know.
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--- #3 fediverse/2614 ---
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 literally just... if you want to connect to me, come hang out on my wavelength.
 
 or like, invite me to join yours, and I'll do my best to show how I feel about
 the things you share.
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 @user-889 
 
 perhaps you need a community, rather than a friend? just a guess
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--- #5 fediverse/2855 ---
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 I refuse to be known by anyone who doesn't *know* me. But I'm always meeting
 people anew, so if they spent some time with me and saw more of my facets,
 perhaps they might come to know me.
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--- #6 fediverse/6027 ---
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 some days I feel like someone else's lesson and that can be hard.
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--- #7 messages/1296 ---
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 who do I want? the coolest people around.
 
 who do I want? everyone else.
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--- #8 messages/109 ---
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 That's why I like talking about things I'm interested in. It makes me more
 likely to be able to bring up something I've been thinking about.
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--- #9 fediverse_boost/281 ---
◀═[BOOST] ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐  Everyone needs to learn the difference between going through something     with someone, and someone putting you through something.                  └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘                                                         similar                      chronological                       different─▶

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 @user-192 
 
 relatable... somehow
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 @user-249 
 
 most people don't talk to me so either you're braver than most or I hit a
 common chord that you and I share
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--- #12 fediverse/3926 ---
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 @user-1605 
 
 be yourself? don't sweat it
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 the best way to make friends is to be open and honest to them
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--- #14 fediverse/1989 ---
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 I don't care who you are, but if others aren't fighting to be in your life,
 then do they really belong there?
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--- #15 fediverse/3093 ---
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 *life is so much more than following your rules and fulfilling your
 obligations*
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--- #16 fediverse/3372 ---
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 I don't really need to know if people like me. It's nice, but it doesn't help
 me.
 
 I do, however, desperately want to know *if I'm helping*. Knowing this would
 help me.
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--- #17 fediverse/3031 ---
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 the things that I suggest we do when we hang out are not because those are the
 things I most want to do, but rather because they are the things that I think
 you'd want to do.
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--- #18 fediverse/1963 ---
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 @user-246 
 
 sometimes all it takes is an active listener
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 That which tends to guide your thoughts.
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 "you're special."
 
 "I'm really not."
 
 "do you doubt my judgement? Or yourself?"
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--- #21 fediverse/4806 ---
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 i've been told to be more direct.
 
 I haven't been told to be more quiet.
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--- #22 messages/103 ---
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 *which is why I try to be as unique as I can.
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--- #23 fediverse/2813 ---
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 your reactions to your context are what define you, and when you're alone you
 are free to define yourself as you will.
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--- #24 fediverse/1731 ---
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 @user-1037 
 
 I've only ever had good friends. : )
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--- #25 fediverse/5864 ---
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 @user-1074 
 
 I dream bigger than "the same, but nice"
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--- #26 fediverse/5686 ---
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 my friends tell me stories and I build my ideas for relationships based on
 their pain.
 
 I am always haunted by questions they don't want to answer.
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--- #27 messages/1388 ---
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 I spend time on Reddit because it feels like a conversation. Well, it used to.
 Now it's... different.
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--- #28 fediverse/2812 ---
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 when you're alone, everything that happens to you is personal.
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--- #29 messages/1148 ---
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 Sometimes i see a lot of my people, sometimes i see very few. This periodic
 cycle actually fills me with hope. It means they're working together on things
 just outside my view.
 
 I love to be reminded. I love to be loved! But even more, i love to know
 they're busy.
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--- #30 fediverse/2921 ---
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 @user-1387
 
 I respect you and your perspective. Someone needs to put you in the right
 rooms with the right people.
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--- #31 fediverse/6108 ---
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 trusting someone doesn't mean you'll do what they say. it means you'll listen.
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--- #32 fediverse/2786 ---
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 the best way, I find, to be deserving of trust is to do the best that you can,
 and be honest when you cannot do more.
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--- #33 fediverse/5556 ---
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 I have never been given anything other than positive affirmation.
 
 it's the silence that counts.
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