Rivers of Reflection: Lessons in Connection and LonelinessRivers of Reflection: Lessons in Connection and Loneliness
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Nsima Akpan
• 21h
Title: The Rivers That Realized Too Late
Two rivers were born
from the same spring.
For years, they competed.
Argued.
Resisted each other.
Eventually, they separated.
At first, it felt like freedom.
But farther down their journeys,
both discovered the same thing:
No river understood them
the way the other one did.
When they finally reached the ocean, surrounded by countless waters,
they felt something unexpected.
Loneliness.
Sometimes the people we compete
with most are the people
who know us best.
And sometimes distance teaches
lessons appreciation should
have taught earlier.
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Nsima Akpan
• 21h
The popular saying😍 l
You never know what you have until you lose it.
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