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Introduction Book For People Who Love Reading 🩶

I don't have a good place...But I don't want to 🩶

Records of people who used to break

And also chose to stand with their own legs.

This is not the book of a successful man.

Not the story of someone whose life is smooth.

And it's not a manual that says

"Do this and your life will be better."

But it's a record of an ordinary person who once fell, once broke, once left his life with someone else, and once believed that... if one day the world didn't need us,

We wouldn't have a place to stand.

This book.

Written for people

Not the best yet.

Not ready yet.

Still the most unsettling.

But also "don't leave yourself."

If you're tired of the working world,

Is fearing an uncertain future.

Or standing on a day that feels

I am not good enough for this world.

This book doesn't take you further than anyone else.

But it might help you.

Not missing from my own life.

That's enough.

# meb # Introduction book

J a y W.

2025/12/30 Edited to

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