"What is 'life's terms'? In my experience, it means:
- that sometimes life will be so beautiful it'll just make you cry
- when you stop trying to control people, you start loving them and worry less about the decisions they make or things that happen to them
- when you learn to forgive the world becomes a less threatening place
- the realization that maybe everything does have a purpose is mind blowing...it makes you see things in an entirely different way"
There's probably still more bit I just thought I would balance out your list a little
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