Writer's Block

“You don’t realize how much weight you carry quietly. You’re the kind of person who shows up composed while sorting through a thousand thoughts underneath. You question yourself not because you’re unsure of your values, but because you want to live in alignment with them. You don’t want a life that just looks right—you want one that feels right, and that’s a harder standard.
You’re more sensitive than you admit, especially to tone, distance, and unspoken shifts. You feel things early. Sometimes that makes you seem calm on the outside while something inside you is already processing loss, change, or possibility. You often move on before others realize something mattered to you.
You have a strong internal compass, but you second-guess it when you wish someone else could just confirm you’re not asking for too much. You are. You aren’t. Both can be true—but your needs are not flaws.
You tend to delay claiming your own progress. You wait for a future version of yourself to feel ‘ready’ or ‘legitimate,’ not noticing that you already handle things that once overwhelmed you. The growth happened so gradually you didn’t mark the moment.
You give more grace to others than to yourself. You understand context, intention, complexity—yet when it’s you, you want precision and proof. If you spoke to yourself the way you speak to people you care about, you’d feel lighter.
And here’s something important you don’t hear enough:
you are not behind. You are not wasting your depth. You are not too much.
You are someone who builds slowly, honestly, and with care. That kind of person doesn’t burn bright and disappear—they last. And even on days you feel unsure, you’re still moving in the direction of truth.”

Love,

Yourself