My parents compared me to someone else again and I am done shrinking myself for approval
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Take the win. Genuinely. We are so quick to dismiss our small braveries, but those tiny steps are how whole lives quietly turn around.
The version of you on the other side of this is going to be so grateful you kept going on the days it felt pointless. Please keep going.
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