What happens when you leave it all behind and the freedom…
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What happens when you leave it all behind and the freedom you expected never shows up?
A year ago I walked away from the job, the routine, the identity I had built around being productive and useful. Not dramatically, just quietly stopped. Thought it would feel like freedom. It mostly felt like falling.
The weird part is that the rebuilding was not what I expected. You think you will come back stronger with clarity and a plan. What actually happens is you just start doing small things again, and one day you realize you stopped dreading mornings.
There was no single moment. No epiphany. Just a slow accumulation of showing up even when the version of yourself you were showing up as felt like a stranger.
The thing nobody tells you about hitting a real low is that the circumstances do pass, but the person who comes out is not the same one who went in. That is not a bad thing. It just takes a while to see it that way.
If you are in the middle of your own version of this, the chaos is not permanent even when it feels baked into everything. You do not need to have it figured out. Just keep moving even if the movement feels pointless right now.
#inspiration
A year ago I walked away from the job, the routine, the identity I had built around being productive and useful. Not dramatically, just quietly stopped. Thought it would feel like freedom. It mostly felt like falling.
The weird part is that the rebuilding was not what I expected. You think you will come back stronger with clarity and a plan. What actually happens is you just start doing small things again, and one day you realize you stopped dreading mornings.
There was no single moment. No epiphany. Just a slow accumulation of showing up even when the version of yourself you were showing up as felt like a stranger.
The thing nobody tells you about hitting a real low is that the circumstances do pass, but the person who comes out is not the same one who went in. That is not a bad thing. It just takes a while to see it that way.
If you are in the middle of your own version of this, the chaos is not permanent even when it feels baked into everything. You do not need to have it figured out. Just keep moving even if the movement feels pointless right now.
#inspiration
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