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Ourselves, a fraction of ourselves.

Actually crystallized this story for a while, so I want to tell this story to everyone.

We are all * * * people know.

Not the whole body. Not the whole story. Not the whole heart.

Just a little piece that survived in a moment.

In the lights of conversation. In a short smile. In a late night message.

In a tired tone. Or in a glance at each other on the road.

The people we love the most still see a fraction of us.

Best friends can only keep a piece.

People who have passed our lives, even for how long, remember us only a few seconds of editing.

Some people know us as "the people who used to make him smile."

Some people know us as "the people who used to make him cry."

Some people only know us "people who used to be there one day."

And we did the same thing to everyone else....

We never knew anyone.

We just keep a fraction of them in mind.

A fraction of the tenderness he once gave.

A fraction of the anger he used to explode.

A fraction of the loneliness he used to hide behind a smile.

That is a fact that is both beautiful and painful.

We are puzzles that no one can solve.

And everyone else is our mystery, too.

But when we understand here...

We'll stop trying to be "all" to anyone.

We will give up expecting anyone to "totally understand us."

We'll start to accept that.

Being known in a fraction.

Is enough for a connection in this world.

Because in the end,

The meaning of life does not lie entirely in being understood.

It's about letting others take a fraction of us, and we keep a fraction of them.

Until those little fragments

Become a bridge connecting two hearts that have never been seen together.

We're not a mystery to solve.

We are an imperfect mosaic and a real beauty.

Is that we allow the world

Has seen only a fraction of us.

The way it should be.

And then one day...

When we left,

People who used to know us.

Will still smile

Thinking of the little fraction we used to leave in his life,

That's it...

Is to live the most complete life.

In a world where no one knows anyone at all.

# A fraction# DVFXbyCSU# lemon 8 diary

4/21 Edited to

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