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My life can be summed up in a recipe:



1. Starting with your basic ingredients:

- Sheltered upbringing

- Spoiled only child

- Stubbornness



2. Now stir in misguided expectations

That I could somehow please everyone

Which only drained the life out of me.



3. Next, mix in the slightest hint

Of regret for flavor and a dash of shame

For all the times I willingly allowed

Myself to fall into traps of betrayal.



4. Now all that remained was

A consistency to please only myself

And I can seem to only want to

Simmer in false complacency

Because I am afraid I cannot change.