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“the midnight library“

 "Between life and death
there is a library," she said.
"And within that library, the
shelves go on for ever. Every
book provides a chance to
try another life you could
have lived. To see how
things would be different if
you had made other
choices... Would you have
done anything different, if
you had the chance to undo
your regrets?"
This was not the life she
imagined it to be.
 If you aim to be
something you are
not, you will always
fail. Aim to be you.
Aim to look and act
and think like you.
Aim to be the truest
version of you.'
 And it became
astoundingly
c l e a r t o h e r,
nally, in that
moment:
She didn't want to
die.
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Maybe that's what all lives
were though. Maybe even
the most seemingly
perfectly intense or
worthwhile lives ultimately
felt the same. Acres of
disappointment and
monotony and hurts and
rivalries but with ashes
of wonder and beauty.
Maybe that was the only
meaning that mattered.
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I just don’t understand
life,’ sulked Nora.

‘You don’t have to

understand life.
You just have to live it.’
 "This is the best life," she
told herself, a little
desperately now. "This is
the best life. I am staying
here. This is the best life
for me. This is the best life.
This is the best life."
But she knew she didn't
have long.
 Maybe there are no easy paths. There are just paths. And we spend so
much time wishing our lives were different, comparing ourselves to other
people and other versions of ourselves, when really most lives contain
degrees of good and degrees of bad.
 At one minute and
twenty-seven seconds
after midnight, Nora
Seed marked her
emergence back into
life by vomiting all over
her duvet.
Alive, but hardly.
Maybe she could turn it
into a proper song and
put it out there online.
Maybe she would write
more songs. Or maybe
she would save up and
apply for a Master’s. Or
maybe she would do
both. Who knew?