Oh, brooding swan, how much longer will you wait? She lies within her green bower, as still as ever. Does the swan eat? Does she dream?

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Love only with curiousity, vivacity, and endurance.

That will make your trip on this earth as light as possible. Instead of baggage, view yourself as a beautiful set of luggage, never lost, oh, no, not lost, you never had a home to begin with, but ever en route, acquiring new things, new insights, sorrows, definitions, joys.

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However, for once, if only today, I am resigned to the "mediocrity" (again, subjective) I see too often.

Someone prove me otherwise; inspire me to act with the ardor of youth, only wiser, if only a little wiser. This term, indeed, has tested me in terms of endurance. I know the extent of my powers, and what more I can do.

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