If you swallow appleseed(s)

Smoke some cigarettes. The smoke will suffocate the bacteria

—Mac

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“If you were just more positive you’d not be complaining about being depressed all the time”.

And/or

“Have you tried just being happy for once?”

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Aka fake it til you make it

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Putting in my unasked for opinion that we should popularize ‘flail it til you nail it’

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I don’t know, this one has pretty much carried me through the last 40 years. There’s definitely worse advice.

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Yea same here but in a different way than what people usually mean. Don’t fake being rich until you are. I was and to a certain extent still am socially anxious and bad at talking to people and holding conversations. I started faking being more socially adept than I actually was by copying people I knew who were extroverts and by observing peoples interactions in the wild. Eventually I did get better with both and have no issue with either, although I do need some time to recharge later on after social interactions.

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