mental-health
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This was never about you.That’s the first lie expectation tells so it can keep breathing. Because somehow it was always about you.Not you as you imagine yourself, but you as you insist on being seen. I said what I said.And I meant what you thought.That’s where expectation lives, in the quiet space where meaning mutates…
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(Headphones on-My Tears Ricochet-Taylor Swift) I used to think walking away meant something had gone wrong.That it required an explanation.That I would feel guilty for it later. None of that happened. What actually happened was simpler.People kept trying to hand me their mess like it was my responsibility to hold it.Their drama. Their spirals. Their…
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(Headphones on-Tycho-Awake) Nothing happened today. No collapse. No epiphany. No moment dramatic enough to tell someone about. The kind of day that would have terrified me once because it offered nothing to cling to. I woke up without urgency. No need to check messages to see who still wanted me. No inventory of what I…
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I remember the quiet before they named me. Not silence, exactly.More like listening earth.Like the world holding its breath before the light turns. My mother understood this before I did.She did not teach me words.She taught me seasons. She taught me how to feel the moment when darkness reaches its limit.How to recognize the pause…
