Post by Licia Gyang (@gyang_felicia)

We spend our lives trying to become someone... only to discover we were borrowing definitions from people still searching for themselves.

We chase applause from strangers, approval from the wounded, and certainty from a future that has never spoken.

Then one ordinary day, life removes everything we thought we needed... and leaves us alone with the only person we can never walk away from.

Ourselves.

Maybe growing up isn't learning more.
Maybe it's slowly unlearning every lie that taught us our worth had to be witnessed before it could be real.

In the end, time doesn't ask how loudly you lived.

Only whether the life you called yours... ever truly belonged to you.

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