What you believe you are allowed to have runs your life. This is where that belief gets changed.
Before your feet even hit the floor, the day already has a verdict. You wake up and, somewhere in the first few seconds, a decision has already been made about how today is going to go. Whether it will be heavy or light. Whether people will be warm or difficult. Whether life is, in some…
You catch yourself doing it again. Running the worst version of a conversation that hasn’t happened yet. You picture the text going unanswered. You rehearse the meeting going badly before you’ve walked in. You imagine the plan falling apart, the person pulling away, the thing not working out, and you do it so automatically you…
For the first 28 years of my life, I was two completely different people. In one part of my life, things just worked out. School, exams, the move to a new country, the job with the exact salary I wanted. I never strained for any of it. Some part of me simply never doubted it…