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The Things I Took for Granted... + All I Did Was Try...

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The things you took for granted are, in the end, what trip you up.


All I did was try. I just keep seeking it out.

As long as I don’t stop walking the path myself,

it’s never a failure. There’s no need to feel let down or to blame myself.

There’s no need to measure myself down to the standards of people who judge only by the surface.

They don’t know my thoughts, and they’re not interested, either.

They’ll only clap if I succeed, and point fingers if I fail.

A step or two behind me.

This English version was translated by Claude.

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Pleasant Charles — UI/UX researcher at AIT. Keeping notes on design, planning, and slow days here since 2010.

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