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What If This Is Life, Too?
we keep waiting for life to get better, forgetting that the life you are waiting for is already happening.
Lately, I have been asking myself a question that feels almost too difficult to answer: Is this really what my life was meant to be? You may have wondered the same thing while trying to make sense of your own journey, questioning whether life is supposed to feel this exhausting, uncertain, and unfinished. You keep moving toward something you cannot quite reach, hoping that one day everything will finally make sense. Yet somewhere between who you are and who you hoped to become, you have forgotten that the person you are today deserves to experience life, too.
We grow up believing that happiness lives somewhere in the future. We imagine that life will begin when we finally achieve something meaningful, find the right people, become successful, or overcome everything that has been holding us back. In the stories we read, the characters endure their struggles until the final problem is solved, and then everything falls beautifully into place. We carry that expectation into reality, convincing ourselves that peace must be earned through suffering and that happiness is something we receive only after surviving our hardest days. But life does not always…
