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Make your life count.

Make your mark on the world.

Make these clichés stop, please

                It is thy duty

You owe it to yourself: to be

                Yourself.

 

No one knows you better than you

So don’t let them get in your head.

For all you know, they may not be

Who you think they are.

 

Impressions.

They last so long,

Scar so deeply,

Yet they mean nothing; they’re

 what they think you are.

 

Refuse to be defined;

Show your bold,

Keep your cool

For you embody the one and only you.

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