16/06/2026
๐ฌ๐ผ๐ ๐บ๐ถ๐๐ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ผ๐น๐ฑ ๐๐ผ๐.
Not the younger you.
The you from three or four years ago.
The one who didnโt think twice about going places.
The one who made decisions more easily.
The one who wasnโt constantly analysing, worrying or talking themselves out of things.
The frustrating thing is that everybody else still seems to see that person.
Which is why itโs so hard to explain.
From the outside, life probably looks fairly normal.
But you know how much harder everything feels these days.
Iโve lost count of the number of people whoโve told me some version of:
โI just donโt feel like myself anymore.โ
The encouraging thing is that the person theyโre talking about is rarely gone.
Theyโre usually buried underneath a lot of stress, worry, exhaustion or difficult experiences.
And buried is very different from lost.
๐๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐น๐ ๐ณ๐ฎ๐บ๐ถ๐น๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฟ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ผ๐โ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ผ ๐ณ๐ถ๐ด๐๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ ๐ผ๐๐ ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐ผ๐๐ป, ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐น ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฒ ๐๐ผ ๐ฑ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฝ ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ฎ ๐บ๐ฒ๐๐๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ. ๐โ๐ฑ ๐ฏ๐ฒ ๐ต๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ ๐๐ผ ๐ต๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ฒ๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ต๐ฒ๐น๐ฝ.