burnout
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Before you close your eyes, set down the conversations you keep replaying. Lay tomorrow’s worries beside your shoes. They will still be there when morning comes. You were never meant to carry every broken promise, every unanswered question, every impossible expectation through the night. Even the strongest trees release their leaves. Even the moon lets…
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By nine o’clock, the world has grown quiet enough to hear the things we spent all day trying to outrun. The smiles are folded away with the laundry. The brave face sits beside an untouched cup of tea. There is a loneliness that only visits after sunset— when no one is asking how you’re doing…
Between Bruises and Blooms 