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Be Budding's avatar

You are wonderful as you are, Mark ❤️❤️

Mark ✌️💙🫂's avatar

Thank you Be! That means a lot to me

Be Budding's avatar

I mean it ❤️ You are wonderful.

Laura Howard's avatar

Mark, you have beautiful poems that can reach so many people and be lifted up by them. Even though I have never suffered from depression myself I do have a son who is bipolar so I know what it looks like especially on days when he can’t bring himself back up.

Mark ✌️💙🫂's avatar

Thank you. So very kind. Thanks for reading

Meg Gillian Gilmore's avatar

Mark, you are brilliant. You have expressed exactly what so many other people are feeling, but are too embarrassed or feel to ashamed to admit that they are feeling the same way as you.

I think your courage and your compassion and the deep hope you hold for your dreams to be realised would make you an excellent teacher.

In Australia we have places where people can go to get help to study.

I really hope that people from the US, who have read your note, will advise you of these places that can help you take the first step towards making your dreams become a reality for you.

I used to be a college lecturer and I became really interested in helping students to learn about organisations that can help you take that first step to studying or getting a job.

Because I taught in so many different departments at the college, I would write different modules for my students in the various departments and include it in my lessons. It would become part of my subject called Personal Development Skills.

PLEASE CAN SOMEONE FROM THE US OR MARK'S STATEOR HIS CITY/TOWN RECOMMEND ANY ORGANISATIONS TO MARK TO HELP HIM TAKE THAT BIG FIRST STEP TO MAKE HIS DREAM A REALITY.

Because you have carried this with you for so long, I believe in you. Mark you are able to make your dream job a reality.

I intend to follow you, Mark, if that is OK with you? I would love to hear if people who read this note will know how to help you.

My mantra is, "Please

don't be the one to break the chain of love, caring and kindness". Our world needs more love, caring and kindness in it right now!!! Please pass this mantra along to other people.

If people ask me, after I have helped them, "How can I pay you back". I usually say, "You owe me nothing, please just pay it forward to someone who needs your help". Sometimes I will say my mantra about 'not being the one to break the chain...' to them.

Mark, I wish you for all the good people to reach out to help you.

Love from the bottom of Australia. 💞🔗🇦🇺🦘🇺🇸🕊️

Damien's avatar

I love this. The dynamic of life being pieced together like a puzzle is hard truth.

Antonio Castellaneta's avatar

The line about still searching before becoming “obsolete” stayed with me.

There’s a very human sadness and hope existing together in that ending.

Hina Gondal's avatar

OMG hauntingly beautiful Mark,i felt every word closer 🫶

Aaliya's avatar

This is heartfelt and so poignant. Even when life feels incomplete, there’s always hope in finding the missing pieces. Keep believing in yourself.