Thinking and …overthinking

I’ve been thinking about how rough it is to live with things people can’t see. My body doesn’t always cooperate, and sometimes that affects how free or independent I feel, even if I don’t talk about it much.
For a while everything was quiet, and I almost convinced myself it would stay that way. Now I live with this constant “what if,” and it’s honestly scary not knowing when things might change again.
What makes it harder is feeling out of sync with other people . I to connect and be normal but sometimes my life is just … different. I’m still learning how to hold all of that and keep going anyway.

This page is a permanent link to the reply below and its nested replies. See all post replies »

Waveney · 41-45, M Best Comment

I like that. I can see that you're carrying a quiet sort of strength. I think that living with the unseen can be such a lonely kind of courage and it takes real grace to keep moving forward while holding that uncertainty.

The way you describe it feels deeply human like you're trying to meet the world where it is while your own rhythms sometimes move to a different, harder tempo, but the fact that you’re still reaching out and reflecting like this says a lot about your resilience and depth, so that's awesome.

Why should be normal? Being “different” only means you're carrying depths and a subtle beauty most people never learn to see

(sorry, I'm a counsellor lol)