A Vow To Self

Love won’t save you.
You know that now.

It shows you what’s already there—

mornings where things feel light for no reason,
and the ones where getting out of bed feels heavier than it should,
the moments you laugh without thinking,
and the nights you’re just staring at the ceiling,
waiting for something to change,

even the times it’s just you
and whatever you’re carrying.

Sometimes… that’s it.

There’s nowhere to hide in it.
That’s probably the point.

You’re going to do it again,
look for something else,
the next number,
something perfect,
some version of you that feels settled.

You’ve done this enough times to recognise it.

You keep thinking fulfilment is somewhere ahead of you.
It never was.

Life isn’t happening somewhere else.

You’ve waited for something to fix this before.
Nothing came.

Not a person,
not a moment,
not some future you that has it all figured out.

So this is it.

Not the big shift,
not the perfect timing,
just this.

No more pretending you don’t already know.
No more going back and forth.

You’re tired of that.

Just show up.

Even when it feels off,
even when it’s messy,
even when you get it wrong—
and you will.

And when you drift,
you don’t turn it into a story.

You just come back.

Not to who you think you should be.

Just… back.