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The world is so beautiful. Why would anyone want to destroy it?

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When I'm done with grad school, I'll go back to El Nido and work as bartender (half serious)

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I wish I can just

Swim all day and feel the sun’s heat penetrating my burnt skin

The same way I would’ve just spend my day

Drinking from the richness of a poem and bathing on all thoughts, ideas – deriving pleasure from being inquisitive enough

To stay glued on theoretical books as

Useful as jeggings to a mermaid— reading just because, for aha!

In the world of adults, productive idleness is most expensive.