Tessa Lena’s Letter to Fellow Dissidents

It’s not great to feel different from other people like this, and you honestly just want to fit in with your friends and not stick out like a sore thumb all the time. And you try to blend in. Oh, you try.

You work hard to be normal. You try telling yourself that you are probably crazy. You deny the evidence of your lying eyes.

It turns out that a life of compliance is not enough for you, though. Other people seem to be getting away with living shallow in a man-made matrix world, but not you. Your denial of the evidence of your lying eyes doesn’t go over well for you.

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Tag: Tao Te Ching

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