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You made a good choice to take a good step in a good direction. You are legally allowed to take the rest of the day off and decompress now. Good job you earned it.
I really relate to this a lot 
you've got this and it's very unlikely you'll get the response you fear.
Right there with you. In my old age I've come to terms with being an obnoxious fuck so now I just barge in and out of people's lives as they need me. All my relationships got tossed on their head recently and it's pretty interesting how many other people have wanted to spend more time with me.
one thing you can do in life is whenever you dont know what a person thinks about you you can think to yourself, "this person likes me and thinks well of me" and just try and live your life in that mode
if it sounds strange then realize that is already what you are doing except you are imagining them thinking ill of you
why do that to yourself?
you can start now. actively tell yourself, "you know, i bet our lives got busy and we all lost touch and i bet they are happy to hear from me. they are still busy with live of course but when they see my message they'll remember me fondly and want to touch base with an old friend"
this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2024
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