Janet FitchThe cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.
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The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me. This speaker is talking about the times in life when things don't go well and you think, "Why is it always like this?" You can't get ahead or meet your goals, you can't achieve your dreams, and you feel stuck. Then one day you realize that it's always been like this for you.
It's been easy to shrug it off and go back to the same old thing again. But if you look back over your life, a pattern emerges: a series of easy successes followed by a series of hard failures. And the thing about these hard failures is that they aren't mistakes; they're opportunities to make a better choice next time.
Source: White Oleander
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