LilMonsterDee

You are allowed to have feelings. You are allowed to have needs.

i’ve been doing a lot of reflecting lately, and i keep coming back to the same question:

what am i still carrying that i don’t need to?

so here’s my honest list — the things i’m slowly, imperfectly, learning to release:

the need to explain myself to people who have already decided not to understand me.

the guilt of resting when there’s still “so much to do.”

the old version of me that i keep apologizing for. she was doing her best.

the fear that growing means leaving people behind.

the idea that i’m running out of time.

it’s not a perfect list. and i haven’t fully let go of any of these yet. but i’m trying, and that feels like enough for now.