Same

I don’t think I’ve completely changed.

I just shifted my focus.

Back then, I was lonely.

Now? I’m lonelier than ever.

But I know better than to feed the thoughts that want me to lose.

They don’t serve the version of me I’m building.

So I humbled myself.

I looked my reality in the eye

and admitted—it wasn’t enough.

Not for me.

And so, I moved differently.

Closed doors that once made me feel seen.

Opened ones that now demand I see myself.

It’s unfamiliar.

Overwhelming, even.

But it smells like growth—

like fresh air laced with challenge.

I’m here for it.

The loneliness didn’t stay behind.

It came with me.

But I’d rather walk with it through the unknown

than keep chasing fragments of comfort

in places that never truly satisfied me.