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Poem Analysis: This Is Water

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“This is water”.

I want to share some thoughts that came to my mind when reading “THIS IS WATER”.
Choose the right thing; it is up to you... Choose what makes your soul happy; only you have to make a decision… Don’t listen to what people say, don’t do things to satisfy others. Be who you are, be yourself, not who the world wants you to be. Live for yourself, live a life to be proud of at the end. There will be times when nobody will understand you, nobody will say that you are right, like two young fish who didn’t understand the other one, although he was right… Never give up, never stop dreaming, believing or hoping for something, like the atheist boy, who waited for something and when
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