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“I am just another person trying to make it through life, seeking to improve my situation and working hard to get rid of my bad habits.
20 years I have spent in ignorance, laziness, apathy and self-loathing. The road ahead is long and tough but I am still hanging on.

“When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possess’d,
Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
For thy sweet love remember’d such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.”
—William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29”