I'm not really good at talking about myself...
so I let my stories do it for me.
I write the things I couldn't say out loud,
the things that stayed in my chest a little too long,
the things that never really left.
Some of my stories are soft,
the kind that make you smile,
the kind that feel like a small escape from everything.
And some of them... are not like that at all.
Some stories come from a place I don't always know how to explain.
They're made of memories, emotions, and moments
that quietly changed me.
I didn't start writing just for fun.
I started because I had too much inside me,
and nowhere else to put it.
So I turned everything into words.
Not everything I write is true,
but not everything is fiction either.
There's always a part of me hidden somewhere-
in a line, a feeling, a character.
Sometimes I write to escape reality.
Sometimes I write because reality won't leave me alone.
I've written stories that feel like a dream,
and I've written stories that feel a little too real.
One of them is meant to make you smile,
to give you something light, something comforting.
And the other...
is something I carry inside me.
A story that isn't easy to write,
but one I needed to tell.
I don't know if my words are perfect.
I don't know if my stories are enough.
But they're honest.
And they're mine.
If you're here, reading this,
maybe you'll find something you relate to.
Maybe you'll feel understood, even a little.
Or maybe you'll just read and move on.
Either way...
thank you for being here.
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