Deliberately imposed constraint: Write a post as a single haiku or a series of haikus
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What is real success?
Is it hanging on by threads?
Or posting on Threads?
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What is shared online
Only one side of the coin
Not the full picture
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The people I’ve met
All have one thing in common
The struggle is real
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And hidden by fog
Look behind the big curtain
To find the real truth
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Smart feeling so dumb
The wealthy, feeling so poor
Full feeling hungry
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Look so together
Try to keep up the facades
Need to keep going
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All is looking well
But feeling broken inside
Barely together
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So much, so little
So often this is the truth
A little of both
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Looks can deceive you
You don’t know the whole story
Take that for a fact
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All missing something
All perspectives and context
So, what can you do?
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Please stop and take note
I do have something for you
Despite being hard
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Fight for what is right
Stand up for those who need you
Better, together.
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We can choose kindness
We can all stop and take pause
And always choose love
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I’ve yet to meet a person who has gotten everything that they want, who is without problems.
We seem to forget that everyone we meet is human. We all deal with our struggles and insecurities. The standard we hold ourselves to is often the unrealistic image we have of others. Instead, we should focus on being gentle and kind to ourselves, since the stories we believe about others are little more than fiction.
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I don’t write a lot of Haikus but I wanted to switch things up and try something new.
