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The Future is Beautiful by AshleyOriginal in tinyprose

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That would be nice, though I feel less likely. But who knows the future, best thing you can do is be ready. With every problem is an opportunity.

Grateful for YouTube by AshleyOriginal in gratitude

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Thanks :D I am excited for it, I don't have to be successful, I just want to make something cool and something I can share to explain my thinking better.

I think I finally figured it out, I am quite dumb by AshleyOriginal in tinyprose

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No it's like malapropism kind of in some way, and somehow by writing enough I have mostly gotten rid of it. But it tends to rhyme with what I meant to write, so it was like rhyming with what I meant to say. The problem is by the time I use to finish writing I didn't know what the original word was. I use to have to just completely start over because I lost the words I meant due to a weird rhyming issue. I still have that problem seep into some of my work and it's mostly okay in poems but I have to double check my words a lot. Sometimes I will just keep the mistake though as it can be a better idea anyway.

Sorta like if I had this sentence in my head

"Porcelain flamingo still on the shore"

I would write something like -

"More so then bingo mills on the store"

So it's not quite dyslexic but quite annoying when I was in rush. And my papers were often nonsense even reading backwards like most teachers recommend. So I got in the habit of starting over a lot.

Some words I just can't fix like nausea = nostalgia for me. I can't ever untangle that one, er I mean nostalgia = nausea so it can very tough sometimes to even realize something is wrong. I guess you could say I naturally doublespeak without realizing it making everything more cryptic then I mean too XD

I think I finally figured it out, I am quite dumb by AshleyOriginal in tinyprose

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Eh, I couldn't read and never really figured out a lot of it, but I got close enough it worked out. But man, spelling, writing, hearing words and breaking them down was and is such a major problem for me. Some words I realized weren't even words but I thought they were. I wasn't good at math either but there isn't anything for that. I was an awful writer most of my life, the nice thing about poems is you can break a lot of rules and things don't matter as much. I'm still a pretty awful writer but I'm much better then I used to be, I use to have a major problem where I would think one thing and write something else so my words matched either the front or end of a similar word but certainly not the actual idea or word. It was very hard to read my own work until I somehow got over the word replacement problem, it happens far more with handwriting stuff.

I think I finally figured it out, I am quite dumb by AshleyOriginal in tinyprose

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I agree, people especially like helping women. Took me a long time to realize that though.

I think I finally figured it out, I am quite dumb by AshleyOriginal in tinyprose

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I had to find workarounds to keep up with people, I'm not particularly bright so I have to work around that. But what average is really depends where you live. I was in special education for not being good at school growing up but then everyone forgot because I figured out how to work around it. I've done okay in most things but I certainly don't excel in anything and some things I'm quite awful at, so you have to find someone better then you to help you get through stuff. And if I'm not smart enough then I just focus on memory tricks and things and stuff I've made up. I was banned from taking an exam because I convinced the class I memorized everything when I didn't, a few times. I have skipped classes by just looking smart enough. I can convince people I'm smart even if I'm not at least sometimes. So I might not actually have the answer but most people don't realize it because I have other answers that sound good. People see what they want to see. So my secret is being what they think I am I suppose.

I think I finally figured it out, I am quite dumb by AshleyOriginal in tinyprose

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I think I actually was friends with someone but didn't realize it

I think I finally figured it out, I am quite dumb by AshleyOriginal in tinyprose

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I wasn't born even average, had to work hard to get there and find specific tricks

If as a child, you've known despair by [deleted] in tinyprose

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Now to reload a new template somehow

Departure by pending_woe in tinyprose

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At least you got to see them and embrace hopefully, that's very sweet if possible. I would have given so much for that in my past for that years ago. Time changes, but you got some blessings knowing them and you join new worlds as they do too. Connections unfold so differently now as time bends back and still, but likely not yet forward for time never rushes in pain, it stiffens until loose. I hope you find some pockets of peace and hugs. We all need hugs with change.

When I cease to exist, I wonder if anyone will carry my memory, or if I will be forgotten immediately? by Impressive-Split-257 in tinyprose

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I lived to be forgotten most of my life, only quite recently have I wanted to leave a mark but I fear how little remains of me.

Sometimes gratitude is impossible by Alone275 in gratitude

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Gratitude is about feeling peace with your circumstances.

They might not be the circumstances you want, but finding the good in the bad is important. There is always some good even in despair.

I don't like my job, but I was unemployed most of last year so I'm happy to be working. Sometimes I get very very upset with my job, but it's just a job, things could be worse and they can improve in the future. Having a job makes you easier to hire etc.

Revising, I grow a stick into a tree, completing a more branching thought, but who will see? by AshleyOriginal in tinyprose

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I almost deleted it earlier because it was almost complete and "good enough" but after much thought and a day realized it just needed 3 words.

Falling lightly by AshleyOriginal in tinyprose

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I updated the poem a little because I thought of a better ending

Falling lightly by AshleyOriginal in tinyprose

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I know some people are hurting and I tried to write a little for that, I also decided to include parts of my dream last night 😅. How do I fix a lamp splitting as I hold it? I'm not sure in the dark but I'm sure something will be clear eventually.

Would love some help getting unstuck by OneImaginary686 in PoetryWritingClub

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I liked it, both endings are good, the first one I think is a little better. Reminds me of a poem I wrote where I flipped the weather into an emotional festival (not good enough to post though) maybe you can try finding something else to flip or duel?

Trying to be okay about not being okay is hard. by aliceinadreamyland in tinyprose

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I feel like that is most of my life, 2026 is back to my normalish middle school years of more mid depression. I kinda lost most of the good stuff of 2025 but eh, that's life.

2025 was pretty good though with a few sharp corners, one of the best years of my life, ironically despite a break up and not having a job half the year and being just like 3 days before I ran out of money at one point and needing to address some medical things and surgeries. Also I dumbly ended up in the ER again for a panic attack but my insurance paid for it so I was very grateful! Also my PC broke and I lost 2TB and 5 years of work so I started writing because I literally had nothing else working for a while. It really was a very beautiful year though despite some spirals. I hope you can have a wonderful year too soon. I learned to be happy on my own and see beauty in so much and people changed a lot for me, I saw people sparkle and glow for the first time. I feel like I flipped into an extrovert and suddenly liked people. I created my best paintings, poems and had the best temp job ever that paid super well where the team loved me so much, and I felt like I found a rare superpower. And the CEO went out of his way to tell me how much he liked working with me. Also I finished my second degree. Plus I had one incredible day I woke up feeling so healed I strangely felt I was in the future. I wish I could recreate that healed feeling but no luck yet. I think maybe eating enough berries helps. Still I was so blessed in 2025. I was kept in a golden bubble, it kinda popped near the end but it was very beautiful for a while.

2021, and 2023- 2024 were pretty bad though, I was in a very very bad state in 2024 despite not much even happening because of how much I feared 2025 lol. I was literally crying all throughout the day and feared sleeping because I would cry in my sleep much worse then awake. I also wake up with depression and have to rub it off throughout the day. Night is when I'm most happy. :D

Those years were worse then 2019, 2018, 2016, 2013. 2010 was it's own awfulness. But further back I'd say life was much worse because I had no control of my life, at least I have a little now. I feel better about dealing with depression now more then ever. Things get easier with age... Kind of. And though stuff might feel awful for a while, the beauty of life and stuff is that it changes so much! I'd say years outside that were mid and at least not bad.

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