The Art of Being on Your Own - by hasif 💌
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Becoming your own safest place.
Being on your own doesn’t start with candles or books or walks alone in the park. It starts with sitting across from yourself, no distractions, no noise, no people to mirror your worth back to you, and realizing you don’t really know who you are without someone else watching. You spend so much of your life in relation to others. Who you are when you’re liked. Who you are when you’re ignored. Who you are when you’re chasing closure, Or pretending you don’t care, Or holding your breath in a room full of people who never asked how you’re really doing. And when all of that is stripped…
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