The Quiet Return to Self

It all begins when you’ve simply had enough.
Enough of searching for validation in people who were never meant to carry that weight.
Enough of fearing your own company.
Enough of the constant reaching—wanting, needing, seeking.

There comes a moment when something inside you shifts.
What if, instead of chasing something outside of you, you turned inward?
What if you stopped running from the silence and learned to sit with it?
To be alone—not as punishment, but as a return.

Of course, it’s not always simple.
Learning to be alone is layered.
There is joy in it, yes.
But also discomfort. Loneliness. And everything that lives in between.

Still, if you're willing to stay—through the ache, through the quiet—you might find something unexpected.
A world within you.
One that has always been there.
One that is wholly yours.