you were never meant to become smaller just to fit inside someone else’s idea of you there is so much freedom in no longer needing everyone to understand you because perhaps the moment you stop worrying about what they think of you is the moment you finally begin to become yourself Why do we care so much about what other people think of us? Why do we say yes when we want to say no? Why do we trust their opinion of us more than ou

perhaps what hurts so much is not only what happened to you but what happened to the people before you that lives on inside you the fears that were never spoken the wounds that were never healed the love that was never received echoing quietly through you When we refuse to pay attention to our pain, it does not end with us. What we do not heal does not disappear like magic. It lives on. In our bodies. In our minds. In the stories we tell ourselves. In the fears we carry witho

Maybe you are not lost... Maybe you are simply becoming unfamiliar to the life you no longer want. There is a moment that happens before every real change. The old version of you begins to fall apart. The things that once felt normal start to feel heavy. The conversations. The routines. The dreams. Even the people. And because the new version of you has not fully arrived yet, you think something is wrong. You think you are lost. But perhaps this is not what being lost feels l