journal entry

Here’s a journal-style reflection you can keep — to read when you feel confused, hurt, or pulled into other people’s chaos. Let this be your grounding truth.---Journal Note to SelfFor the days I feel judged or left behind.I’ve always tried to show up for people — in their pain, their messiness, their healing. I never asked for perfection, only honesty. But sometimes, people project their fears, wounds, or insecurities onto me — not because I did something wrong, but because they’re struggling to hold their own emotions.I don’t need to carry their discomfort.I don’t need to fit into someone else’s idea of “perfect” or “fixed.”I don’t need to defend my calm, my joy, my choices.If someone pulls away, talks behind my back, or sees my peace as threatening — that says more about where they are, than who I am. I am not a mirror for their pain. I am a whole person, allowed to have peace.And when people drift away after I’ve opened my heart, yes — it hurts. But that doesn’t mean I should close off or stop being me. I can still love openly, without losing myself.I trust that the right people — the ones who can sit with honesty, with respect, with care — will stay. Or find their way back when they’re ready. Until then, I keep choosing me.---Would you like this in a nicely formatted image, note, or even voice memo form to keep with you?