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I Feel Lost in My 20s – And No One Talks About It | My Story Animated
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Jun 5, 2025
I Feel Lost in My 20s – And No One Talks About It “Sometimes I feel like a broken umbrella in a storm.” He’s 20-something. A student. A failure in his own mind. While the rain pours and his cheap umbrella flies away, a coffee shop conversation becomes more than just small talk. It becomes a quiet confession of everything he doesn’t know how to say out loud — about pressure, depression, comparison, and that aching feeling of being “behind.” This is not a grand story. No dramatic twist. Just the honest, messy, beautiful truth of feeling lost, and being heard anyway. A must-watch for anyone in their 20s who doesn’t have it all figured out. #relatableanimation #emotionalstory #2danimation #studentlife #mentalhealth
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don't know the wind indecisive in its
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direction takes the umbrella away from
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me come on I shout i hear the metallic
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clicks and snaps of the cheap fabric and
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reused metal that constitutes an
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umbrella as it flies away it ends up
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landing on a nearby pothole filled with
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water and I give up on retrieving it too
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bored or frustrated maybe I should spend
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more money for better quality that went
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well my friend says shut up the words
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escape my mouth before I even realize
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the rain hits me anywhere it can as if
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it wants to annoy me that much more my
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nose is insulted by the scent of wet
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trash bags cars whizzing past us and all
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the other good aspects of city life how
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about we just go in that coffee place
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right there he says from the safety and
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comfort of his expensive automated
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umbrella with buttons i have to manually
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fumble my way into drawing the
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instrument out like it's a sword if only
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my sword didn't have a flying away
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function say that again i can't hear you
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over this rain i open my arms trying to
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make myself look like more of a martyr
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even that would be a better alternative
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than the position I'm in a university
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student come on he turns his back on me
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knowing I'll follow the street has
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turned from its usual black asphalt look
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to a gray evershifting low gathering of
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mist that's the speed in which this
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storm bombs us with rain because of the
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minute I spend outside I open the door
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to the coffee place and I walk in
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drenched my shoes slushing on the wooden
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floor bad aesthetic choice shop owner
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not my fault it's raining the entire zoo
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outside jeez it's raining the entire zoo
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outside i sigh you've been holding on to
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that one for a while my friend snarks um
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could you the uncertainty in the voice
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could mean only one thing the waitress
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is trying to pick a fight with my wet
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situation i'm not having it really you
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want to i'm really sorry the wind took
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us by surprise he pants we'll just sit
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in the nearest table don't want a mess
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really sorry he pushes me further into
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the establishment you were saved i say
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back at her damn the rain isn't even
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falling vertically anymore i don't even
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know how she looks he keeps pushing me
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inside and I can't look damn it as soon
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as he forces me on a chair I take in the
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place surprisingly warm light panels
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running all the way in the corners of
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the ceiling a weird neo medieval style
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wooden floor meets stone pillars and
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walls are made of glass if only people
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didn't smoke in here be right back he
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says this place isn't just a coffee
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place people are having brunch here
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aside from us there's three more tables
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occupied of the total 20 someone's
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having a slow day at least they're far
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away from ours and I don't have to deal
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with their smoking here you go lots of
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milk lots of sugar he offers me a cup
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you could have waited for them to ask us
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I say taking a sip immediately damn
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that's good didn't want them to bother
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us he sits down dragging the chair
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half-hazardly he always does that can't
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put his coffee and the doughnut down he
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just has to have them on him until he
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decides to take a bite weird so he takes
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a big bite oh that's good chocolate is
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even all around so what's bothering you
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what do you mean i just don't like the
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fact that my umbrella was ruined nobody
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ever told me about these erratic
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weathers i literally did like as soon as
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we thought about coming to stay in this
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area it was the one thing we knew shut
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up come on out with it our class was
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cancelled anyways might as well chill
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here and what's more chilling than
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talking about our lives dude does he
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have to keep looking at me you got some
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mouth no other side there i guide him
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thanks now talk how about you why don't
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we talk about the fact that you don't
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talk to your parents huh it's always
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about me because the only conversation
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we can have about my parents is that I
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don't dig their like entire personality
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there conversation had your turn i
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forget how confident he is with his
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problems would you like anything to eat
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as well we have excellent brunch Cho
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thanks i'm good actually can I have an
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order of fries with some cheese and
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bacon on top ready to go in case I don't
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eat the whole thing of course be right
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there the waitress says it's 11:00 in
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the morning dude what's wrong with you
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he laughs i ignore him finally getting a
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chance to look at the waitress that
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wanted to fight brunette hair tied into
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an oversized bun plain clothes that
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carry the brand of this oh so vibrant
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place hey I'm talking to you the
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underachiever
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screw you I respond so you suddenly like
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the waitress i wonder why he chuckles
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let's get back to the bearing of souls
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preferable than pretending you have a
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sense of humor you are the one with the
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mouth open wide get a hold of yourself
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i'm not whatever focus on the whole
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shouting theme of today what's wrong i
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take a deep breath taking in the
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sweetness of the coffee that makes the
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sides of my tongue tingle it hits just
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right i don't know man i feel like that
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cheap useless imitation of an umbrella
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carried by the winds wherever it may be
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we are in the first additional year of
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our university and my roommate has
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already gotten her degree and it's not
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like I'm mad about it but I can't help
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but feel like I didn't do enough i feel
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so frustratingly dumb and now my parents
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have to pay for the rent for a whole
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year if I even get the degree in time so
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I'm definitely letting them down sure I
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don't want to be here it doesn't mean I
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want to be a burden on my parents
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forever but I haven't worked a day in my
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life and nobody will hire me my eyes
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tear up a bit a reaction I am not so
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keen on having my friend stays silent
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putting the donut down and giving me his
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entire attention damn it how long has it
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been since we talked like this i can't
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stop who wants a student with no
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experience that needs an entire month's
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worth of days off for exam seasons i
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feel pulled in every which direction but
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I can't even tell the direction I'm
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going and as if that wasn't enough half
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the professors cancel our classes like
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we don't have a life outside of their
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lectures or whatever and let's not even
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talk about the worth of our degree our
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parents are paying so we can have a
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worthless piece of paper that will only
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get us to a place of work like this one
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hey don't judge it might have excellent
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benefits for all you know he chuckles
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you know what I mean i I haven't even
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lived a life of a stupid university
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student it's not like I'm drowning in
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relationships i haven't even been with
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anyone in this place everyone we know
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just counts down the time for a break so
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they can run off and talk on their
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phones i'm trying to pay attention to
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class and my papers and dissertations
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still get a failing mark what am I even
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doing here i could just get lost in a
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mountain or something take care of some
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sheep and I get this bubbling feeling in
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my chest like I want to scream but I
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can't cuz I can't lose my mind now or I
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will truly fail and in this tightroppe
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of a life I have to pretend that I am
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having the time of my life all for the
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sake of my parents' peace of mind but
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hey we are what 20some right there is no
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way life is tough for us we haven't even
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lived it i pant finishing whatever is
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left of my coffee the sweetness of the
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drink is a pure contrast to how I'm
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feeling right now is that why I drink my
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coffee sweet can't think of that now or
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I'll break down we study literature and
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I can't even be poetic about my feelings
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i can't be honest with my friend and
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talk about the depression that keeps me
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bogged down unable to reach for
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someone's hand and just receive some
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help instead of lashing out i can't talk
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about the dread of inevitability of
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failure that surrounds my efforts what
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good is trying when it's just not good
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enough i can't even express the elation
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that sweeps me off my feet when he just
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listens and does not even give advice
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because we both know lack of advice is
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not what keeps us back yet we don't know
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what actually does look at us too old to
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not have our life together but too young
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to honestly do i look around not wanting
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to see the look of my friend's face
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maybe because I don't want him to see
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mine i notice a guy who is receiving his
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order a few tables away from us about
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our age could be younger he is studying
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books out random sheets of paper spread
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out this dude really knows how to
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organize i could try to be social all I
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have to do is ask him what subject he is
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studying for i have my soggy bag with me
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i could ask if I could join him saying I
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need the company to maintain
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concentration on my studies actually
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connect with another human being instead
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of being dependent on the one friend I
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know from back home here you go enjoy
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the waitress says giving me a folded
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plastic bag along with the package of
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fries thanks I respond pretending I am
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calm and collected should we go sure he
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says placing a handful of coins on the
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table isn't that a bit expensive for the
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donut and a coffee it's for your plate
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of fries i've already paid for the
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rest you always do that i have money too
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you know next time you are buying we
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quickly get up and walk outside as the
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door closes I glance back at the guy who
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is studying as if he senses me he looks
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back this would be a great opportunity
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to start talking connecting but I am not
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one for extending a hand i just stay in
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my bog of a psyche the amalgamation of
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troubles that is my life i forgot it was
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still raining I say not as bad as before
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i heard this guy who was just standing
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there like an idiot going "What else
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what else?" He gestures with his hands
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in the air "shut up." I start walking
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smiling as the rain hits me sometimes
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it's just good to let it all out even if
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it doesn't lead to anything more than
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just talking thanks dude anytime my
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friend says accompanying me with the
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umbrella ever so slightly away from me
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just to spite me