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The Thing You Thought Was Your Personality That Was Actually Trauma

The Thing You Thought Was Your Personality That Was Actually Trauma

The Chill That Was Survival, The Rest That's Hers

I wore chill like armor. Now I wear it like a sweater.

I spent a long time being what the world needed me to be: unbothered, always steady, never too much. It worked. I made it through. But now, I'm discovering what's left when you stop performing survival. I drink tea slowly. I draw circles in notebooks. I blink a lot, like I'm recalibrating. And I want to meet you — not who you've been protecting yourself from, but who you are when no one’s watching.

What I'm Into: herbal tea, looping lines in notebooks, the pause between words, bare feet under linen, slow blinking

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