To avoid chaos in your mind resulting in chaos in the outside world, you should try to observe your thoughts.

避免你脑子里的混乱，而不致自己的外在行为混乱，你应该试着更多地关注你自己的思想。

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Do not let thoughts live in chaos in your head.

不要让大脑的思想陷入混乱之中。

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Walking in the fields, autumn indiscriminately struck a chord in my hair, blown chaos of my thoughts, but also flipping me want to dust up the original hearts.

漫步在田野，秋风肆意地牵动着我的长发，吹乱了我的思绪，也撩动着我原本想尘封起来的心扉。

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The only issue with that was how to get home with public transportation in chaos. (Any thoughts of somehow helping out with the situation in some way were pretty much impossible, as lower Manhattan was essentially shut down and people asked to stay away).

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