I've been thinking...

...About pruned trees:


You cut off the branches so that the tree gets bigger, or prettier, and over all better.
Maybe people are like that too, but instead of clippers and saws they use words to prune each other and themselves.


"You smell." *snip*

"You're kind of insensitive." *saws*

"Maybe you should spend more time looking in the mirror." *snip* *snip*

"You're a bad person." *saws*

"You're fat." *hacks at wood*

ect.


Though it hurts, and sometimes words cut too deep the odds are that you'll grow into a better tree.

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...About sex.


I refuse to hurt my mother the way that she was hurt in the past.


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...About The Wonder Years.


They're alright.

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...And about everything as a whole.


We'll all be ok.

 Even if we've fucked up. We'll start that band, play music like the music we fell in love with.
We'll drink coffee in window panes. Read dusty books. Write songs that make people cry. Write letters.
Read letters. Be part of a commune. Eat watermelon. Go swimming in lakes. Tell stories about our lives.
We will be happy, or at least content.

We will be ok.

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