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Eventually, you just give up on everything.

Like the friends who can’t keep their word,
and always having someone to go to with things,
and the thought of ever seeing you again.

Then you stop calling people back
Or they even just stop calling you altogether
then they don’t bother to come around anymore

And absolutely every fucking bone in your body beings to ache,
every second, every fucking day.

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"Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary."

"Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn’t happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?"

"Nobody likes letting go. From our earliest moments. From birth until we’re six feet under, our instinct is to grab, grip, cling. To a finger, a bottle, a best friend, to a faded old racing form, Sometimes we hold on for dear life to the very things that keep us from actually living it. But, that comes with an upside. It’s the way we feel when we finally release. The trick I guess is not to find a way around the curve balls life serves up, but to look with them, in halfway happy uneasy alliance. And to search for new things to cling to. When you finally find them to hold on just as tight. And around and around we go. Holding on until the time comes to say… goodbye. And like it or not. Ready or not. At some point you have to accept one universal truth. Life is messy. Always and for all of us. But a wise man once said. Maybe messy is what you need. And I think he might be right."

"When you’re a kid you always want things to stay the same. The same teacher, the same house, the same friends. Being a surgeon is no different. You get used to the same attendings, same scrub nurses, same hospital. Of course, that all changes the minute first year comes around and you have to find a new job.
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It’s one of those things people say. You can’t move on until you’ve let go of the past. Letting go is the easy part. It’s the moving on that’s painful. So sometimes we fight it. Try and keep things the same. Things can’t stay the same though. At some point, you just have to let go. Move on, it’s the only way we let go."