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14. Procrastination. If you had more time, you’d be able to put it off longer. What do you put off to the last moment? Why? Tell a story about how you just barely got something done in time – or didn’t.
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Burning Corneas

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Looking at you, you change. Looking at you is looking at a sun.

You are always beautiful.

Depending on the circumstances, you can illuminate everything around you for millions of miles.
You can give life.
You can make beauty.
You are beauty.
You are life.
You are all things necessary for my survival.
Depending on the circumstances, you can kill.
You can suck the essence out of any living thing.
You can wither nature.
You can destroy life.

In short, you can cause grief unending.

You are a sun.

But a sun is just a star, and there is an innumerable amount of stars, you were just the closest. Now I've left this planet, and the vastness of space is possibly the most crippling and beautiful thing I have ever seen. Here, I may find more stars, that give way to a better life, or I may find nothing and drift until I die.

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