I Don’t Have This Life Thing Figured Out

There are still days when I wake up and feel like I’m starting from scratch.
Days when the old thoughts come back.
Days when I question everything I’ve already worked through.

I used to think there would be a moment when I’d finally “arrive.”
Where I’d feel steady.
Certain.
Done.

But life doesn’t hand out finish lines.
It hands out mirrors.

And the mirror still shows me places I slip.
The patterns that try to return.
The voice that says I’m not enough.
The part of me that still wants to disappear when things get hard.

The difference now isn’t that I’ve figured life out.
It’s that I’ve stopped pretending I should have.

I don’t need to be finished to be honest.
I don’t need to be perfect to be present.
I don’t need to have the answers to keep doing the work.

I don’t have life figured out.
I just finally stopped abandoning myself in the middle of it.

Reflection:
Where do you still expect yourself to be “done” before you let yourself be real?

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