There was a time in my life when I felt like I had to be available for everyone. Every text, every phone call, every notification felt like something I needed to answer immediately. I confused being constantly accessible with being a good friend, a good person, someone who cared. These days, things look a little [...]
There comes a moment in life when you stop fighting battles that were never yours to win. Not because you stopped caring, but because you finally realized that carrying the weight of everything, and everyone, is exhausting.I've finally come to terms with letting a lot of stuff go."Those words aren't about giving up. They're about [...]
There was a time when I measured my worth by watching everyone else. I looked at the people buying houses, raising families, graduating college, building careers, and celebrating milestones while I felt like I was just trying to survive another day.Comparison became a prison.What I didn't understand then was that life was never designed to [...]
There’s a certain kind of pressure that comes with being human. Pressure to have it all figured out by a certain age. Pressure to heal faster, love quicker, earn more, move on sooner, and somehow always be one step ahead. We live in a world that glorifies speed, but life has never operated on a [...]
There comes a point in life when you realize time is the one thing you can never get back. You can earn money again. You can rebuild after loss. You can heal from pain. But wasted time? That’s gone forever. I’ve reached the point where I’m no longer allowing people to drain me, distract me, [...]
In the last few years, it seems like the world is a never-ending maze of pain with no way out. It's too lonely to bear, and the future looks bad and uncertain. At this point, the simplest things—personal hygiene, eating, socializing; things most people do without thinking twice—became big problems. Im numb, apathetic, and uninterested [...]
Everyone wants to be happy, feel good about themselves, and be free. It’s something we all deserve. But sometimes, being too happy is scary. There are moments when I’m enjoying life, feeling on top of the world, and not worrying about anything. Just living in the present, thinking that everything is finally going well. But [...]
First and foremost, I want you to know, how special you are, and I don’t mean it in the way your parents do. When they boast about you to their friends and your family, because that always seemed forced, even though I’m sure they mean well. No, I want you to know how you light [...]
I never asked you to come into my life. You wanted to be a part of it. You signed up for everything on your own. You wanted to share your life with me and you wanted me to let you in mine. You were so convincing because in some moments I saw you looking at [...]
When I say I am exhausted, I mean: I can not remember what I am doing from one moment to the next. Fiction conflates with reality, and I do not know if the person I know is a character from a book or someone I went to college with. Did I feed the dog? Or [...]
Perfectly Imperfect 