how can you be behind in life when your life is only yours
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you wake up some days with a quiet weight sitting on your chest, something you cannot fully explain but cannot ignore either.
you wake up some days with a quiet weight sitting on your chest, something you cannot fully explain but cannot ignore either. it moves with you through ordinary moments, through conversations, through the way you look at your life and then at everyone else’s. somewhere along the way, a thought settled in without asking permission, that you are falling behind. you see people moving forward, building things, reaching places you once imagined for yourself. you are happy for them, you mean it, but there is a distance you cannot shake. it feels like they are inside their lives with clarity, and…
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