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The tendency to over-romanticize can strengthen affection.

Loneliness will only make the moment of finding the right person more momentous.

The discomfort associated with uncertainty will only make finding certainty that much stronger.

Self-doubt can become humility.

Self-centeredness can become assertiveness.

In all this, there is always a choice. And the choice is to see our traits neither as good nor bad, not deficient nor beneficial, but simply existing.