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Dream Reapers ‘Work harder’, ‘follow your guts’, ‘blood, sweat, and tears’. Growing up, such loved ones and strangers alike. It seemed as if they were tethering on the verge of worshipping an entity that none had truly seen or understood, so much that their lives almost depended on it, and those who ‘a wasteful youth’, ‘a useless life’, ‘a shame to their family’, so they told each other.
scroll through your social media newsfeeds to emerge in others’ daily dreams that were now imposed upon you. There was only one you, yet to shoulder, and as you looked at yourself in the mirror every day, you
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“Dream bigger. Make bigger goals. Look at others’ achievements. Don’t be
the dreams of your predecessors, and sometimes, you couldn’t tell ing if you were doing the right thing, or if it was worth pushing away -
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But time is changing. So is our generation, and so will the next ones.
way. Together, we go as a group, respecting and nurturing each other’s side and to stay true to our guts, we watch others reach their dreams and feel
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from the ashes, we are now the rulers of our own games, our achievements are
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I smelled I smelled the aroma the aroma of earthy of earthy grassgrass - the-familiar the familiar natural natural scentscent of peaceful of peaceful coun-countryside tryside hovering hovering around around the tip theoftipmy of nose. my nose. Then, Then, the commotion the commotion of sound of sound shattering shattering the slow the slow rhythm rhythm of the ofatmosphere the atmosphere stirred stirred up my uphearing my hearing sense. sense. It It
thoughts thoughts and guided and guided me tome wander to wander around around the placid the placid village. village.
and the andfragrance the fragrance of lush of lush greengreen meadow. meadow. When When I wasI deeply was deeply immersed immersed in my in my littlelittle world, world, my dad’s my dad’s footsteps footsteps suddenly suddenly stopped stopped goinggoing further. further. A massive A massive and and ancient ancient tree from tree from a hundred a hundred yearsyears ago was agoright was right in front in front of me. ofIme. laidImy laideyes my eyes on on whenever whenever he smiled. he smiled.
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thought thought I deserved I deserved an explanation. an explanation. He slightly He slightly shook shook his head. his head.
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In a In short a short time,time, I lostI everything lost everything I hadI ever had ever prayed prayed for and for strived and strived for. Ifor. cutI cut
around around me. The me. The city life city was life was wildwild and and chaotic. chaotic. It was It was whatwhat my life my looked life looked else.else.
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clothes muddy feet scampering around to play folk games. clothes withwith muddy feet scampering around to play folk games.
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old path that Dad to where the ancient tree was. The scene old path that Dad tooktook me tome where the ancient tree was. The scene was was - -
There a vague fog gliding through my vision. drops. There was was a vague fog gliding through my vision. OneOne drop.drop. TwoTwo drops.
words and stopped at one. words and stopped at one.
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