I struggle hard not to chew my lips. I crack my knuckles, though not as much as I used to.

And I do this funny little breathing thing. It's impossible to explain, but apparently very annoying to the only person that's ever noticed. lol

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.