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i like your idea of printing the song ridiculing the inner bully in big letters and in red to make it eye-catching. i like to switch between subjects when doing my work such as i’ll spend 30 minutes on u.s history ii, then switch to ap biology for 30 minutes and go back to ap calc and rotate around and sometime in between rest and write poetry, post on this forum, sing and dance for a while. it helps keep my inner bully at bay b/c it still tries its little nudges into my consciousness. i had a dream last night that i was walking through grasslands near some mountains and there was a heavy burden attached to me by a heavy red thread. no matter how much i tried to move that burden kept tying me down. i got really annoyed at it, so i issued it to fight, upon i saw a shadow floating saying “ha, ha, ha” before it became physical, it was my inner bully. it threw rocks of insults (actual rocks with mean words) at me trying to crush me, but i summoned a strong wind to blow the rocks off course. then the inner bully pulled out a rapier (long, thin sword) and tried to stab me with it. but i called upon the divine and i received a sword of light that i held in my hand and raised high saying “begone, inner bully you will not win!” so we had a duel and the more i blocked the inner bullies blows, the more exuberance i felt. i brought my sword of light down upon the inner bully’s rapier and it shattered like worthless glass. the inner bully, however was not finished, it threw a dagger at me whom i side-stepped and blocked with my sword of light and it clanged useless to the side to become a block of wood. so the inner bully flew at me like a bat, all teeth and claws and it bit and scratched me. but i raised my hand to the heavens and i developed angels wings. my wings were golden and majestic filled with radiant light and i flew up into the air. the inner bully pursued me and i dived, then when it came close i spread my wide wings and out came a radiant light that wrapped itself around the inner bully melting it. i saw the shattered pieces fall to the earth as i stood as an angel on top of the mountain raising my wings to the heavens. i didn’t stay there for long b/c the buddha came down and transported me up to the sky where i became part of the universe and i heard “you have done well my child. you will continue to defeat the inner bully, for you are the essence of the stars. no inner bully has power over you. live forever among the stars.” so i saw my body falling away and i became a star.