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Why is it that we can never believe in our potential?

We see so much of it in other people, sometimes exalting in it, sometimes envious of it, sometimes thinking they don't deserve it, but rarely do we see it in ourselves.

And the way we look for validation? From wanting what we can never have, so that we inevitably fail.

Sometimes I think there's so much loneliness in the world, because we look right through what we can have for what we know we cannot.

Sometimes it's a miracle that we get past our egos to form the connections we want at all.

It's such an odd mix, self-disdain and pride.

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