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My body ran entirely on primal instinct now.

It was as if every ounce of goodness inside of my soul had evaporated and been replaced with bad.

I was possessed by the seven deadly sins.

Pride.

Greed.

Lust.

Envy.

Gluttony.

Wrath.

Sloth.

I was consumed by each one and couldn’t get enough.

I wasn’t rocking in a corner, haunted by voices of the past and crying my life away.

No, I was productive and thriving.

I was taking care of my needs.

Excelling at school and taking what I wanted from life.

If people didn’t like that, then to hell with them.

I laughed at how scared I used to be of feeling like this.

All the dread and the worry.

All the panic and uncertainty, and for what?

Because I feared losing what I loved the most in life?

He was already long gone.

I had nothing left to lose now.

Those damn doctors with their fucking pills.

Liars, the lot of them.

When I was on the meds, I was fucking miserable.

And now?

Now, I wasfree.

And I feltliberated.

FREUDIAN SLIPS

Hugh

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