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Perhaps The Most Depressed Bird In Its Entire Clade, The White-Winged Tern Lives A Life Of Deep, Unending

Perhaps the most depressed bird in it’s entire clade, the White-Winged Tern lives a life of deep, unending sorrow. Starting from their first breaths as they hatch out of an egg with an unnecessarily-thick shell, this bird must struggle daily with obstacle after seemingly-insurmountable obstacle. Despite an endless litany of bad luck, abuse, and a lack of understanding from other birds, the White-Winged Tern is still able to muster a facade of happiness in order to deflect well-intentioned but ultimately useless advice.

And yet, it moves. No matter how bad things are, no matter how unbearable the pain, this bird continues on. In many cases, it clings to life through the desire to spare friends and family the pain of their loss. Sometimes, it is able to do this long enough for it to find its own reason to keep living. In any event, if you are suffering right now please know that I believe in you. I know how dark and terrible the world can be, but more importantly I know you can survive it. 

I may be simply a weird intern at what I’m increasingly certain is a tax avoidance scam, but I fight my own monsters just to keep waking up in the morning and I know you can too.


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