“ You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present. ”

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Source: Looking for Alaska

Categories: Imagination Life Future Thinking


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