You wake up inside a system that depends on your dissatisfaction.

It teaches you to audit your body before you even brush your teeth. To measure your worth against faces filtered beyond recognition. To call exhaustion ambition. To call distraction connection. To call numbing self care.

You are asked to purchase confidence instead of cultivate it. To correct what was never broken. To stay busy enough that you never sit still long enough to notice the lie.

If you liked yourself as you are, the economy would tremble. If you trusted what you see, you would question what you are shown. If you honored your instincts, you would stop tolerating what harms you.

That is the work. Daily.

To refuse the script. To see clearly. To opt out of the lie that you are a problem to be solved.

The question is who benefits when you believe you aren’t.

꩜ Ella