I lost my dog last week and I underestimated how much of my world he held together
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If no one has told you today: you are doing better than you think, and you do not have to have it all figured out to be worthy of a good life.
Take the win. Genuinely. We are so quick to dismiss our small braveries, but those tiny steps are how whole lives quietly turn around.
I went through something painfully similar last year. It does get lighter, not all at once, but in small unglamorous steps. Hang on to the tiny good moments.
You showed up here and said the hard thing. That is not nothing. That is the opposite of giving up. Quietly proud of you.
It is wild how universal this is and yet how alone it makes each of us feel. You are far more normal than your brain is telling you right now.
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