rising above
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I don’t normally wake up on an average Tuesday looking for trouble. Tuesday is usually reserved for coffee, ambition, and pretending emails don’t exist for another five minutes. But every once in a while… Pettluyah clocks in for her shift. She doesn’t work often. Only when absolutely necessary. Today she adjusted her sunglasses, smiled at…
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Some people swear life happened to them. No. Sometimes life handed you a shovel and quietly stepped back to see what kind of person you really were. That is the part nobody wants to talk about. Because when somebody hands you a shovel, there are a thousand things you could build with it. You could…
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People make choices in their own lives. That is the part everybody wants to dance around like accountability is some kind of haunted mirror they are scared to look into too long. But let’s be honest. You knew from the beginning something was off. That is why you watched me your whole life. Closely. People…
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There is a strange silence that happens when there is finally nothing left to bitch at. Not because life became perfect.Not because every problem vanished into some magical sunrise bullshit.But because one ordinary day you realize you are no longer emotionally available for your own suffering. You are not mad.Not sad.Not overly excited either. You…
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There comes a point where you get tired of cleaning up messes that were never yours. You look down at your hands and realize the red isn’t from your own wounds. It’s from standing too close to people who never learned how to stop bleeding on others. And instead of asking who cut them, you…
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Most days, it’s easy to lose hope in humanity. You see people chasing rewards they haven’t earned, expecting the same recognition as those who grind, sweat, and push harder. The entitled want the fruits of labor without planting the seeds. They sit idle, pointing fingers, talking circles of blame, while the quiet ones—the real ones—are…
