A Little Bit Personal

 

Therapy last week was heavy.

Not in a way that broke me but in a way that peeled back layers I didn’t know I still carried. It was one of those sessions where a single question lingered long after the room got quiet:

“Do you feel like you’re still the same person you were in high school?”

And I didn’t even have to think about it. I said no.

I’m not that person anymore.
Back then, I had no boundaries. I didn’t know I was allowed to say no. I made myself so available to everyone that I didn’t leave anything for myself. I was everyone’s friend, sometimes to the point of losing who I actually was. I wore my people-pleasing like armor thinking it kept me safe, thinking it made me lovable. I said yes to things that didn’t feel right, stayed in spaces that drained me, and smiled when I should’ve spoken up.

But I’ve grown.

Now I can stand on my own even if that means standing alone.
I’ve learned that solitude is not loneliness. It is clarity. It is power.

I’ve built boundaries not as walls to shut people out but as doors to protect what I’ve worked so hard to rebuild in myself. I know what I tolerate. I know what I deserve. I know what I will never accept again.

And it’s wild, honestly, to look back and see how far I’ve come. To grieve the old version of myself while still feeling so much compassion for them. Because that person—naïve, tired, too nice for their own good—was just doing their best with what they knew.

But now I know better. I am better.
And that deserves to be honored.

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