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Why are you still alive?
<p>WHY ARE YOU STILL ALIVE?</p><p><br/></p><p>That's a strange question, isn't it?</p><p><br/></p><p>But stop for a moment.</p><p><br/></p><p>Think about everything you've survived that you once thought would destroy you.</p><p><br/></p><p>The heartbreak.</p><p><br/></p><p>The disappointment.</p><p><br/></p><p>The rejection.</p><p><br/></p><p>The nights you cried yourself to sleep and still woke up the next morning.</p><p><br/></p><p>The plans that failed.</p><p><br/></p><p>The people you thought would stay but didn't.</p><p><br/></p><p>The moments you quietly wondered, “How am I going to get through this?”</p><p><br/></p><p>And somehow...</p><p><br/></p><p>You're still here.</p><p><br/></p><p>Still breathing.</p><p><br/></p><p>Still trying.</p><p><br/></p><p>Still hoping, even if your hope looks different now.</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe you don't have everything figured out.</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe you're not where you thought you'd be by now.</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe some days, getting out of bed feels like an achievement nobody knows about.</p><p><br/></p><p>But you're here.</p><p><br/></p><p>And I think we sometimes underestimate what that means.</p><p><br/></p><p>Being alive isn't always about having a perfect life.</p><p><br/></p><p>Sometimes, it's simply refusing to let one terrible chapter convince you that the entire story is over.</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe you haven't met the people who will change your life yet.</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe you haven't experienced the happiest season of your life yet.</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe there's a dream you've almost forgotten that you're still capable of chasing.</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe there's a version of you waiting on the other side of everything you're currently going through.</p><p><br/></p><p>You don't know.</p><p><br/></p><p>And perhaps that's the beautiful part.</p><p><br/></p><p>You don't know what tomorrow holds.</p><p><br/></p><p>So don't close the book because you don't like the chapter you're currently reading.</p><p><br/></p><p>Keep going.</p><p><br/></p><p>Not because everything will magically become easy.</p><p><br/></p><p>But because there is still so much of your story you haven't lived.</p><p><br/></p><p>So I'll ask you again:</p><p><br/></p><p>Why are you still alive?</p><p><br/></p><p>Not the biological answer.</p><p><br/></p><p>I mean...</p><p><br/></p><p>What is the one thing that keeps you going?</p><p><br/></p><p>A person?</p><p><br/></p><p>A dream?</p><p><br/></p><p>Hope?</p><p><br/></p><p>Faith?</p><p><br/></p><p>Curiosity about what comes next?</p><p><br/></p><p>Or maybe you're still figuring it out.</p><p><br/></p><p>Whatever your answer is, I'd love to hear it.</p><p><br/></p><p>Why are you still here?</p>
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