▲ 2 r/introvert
Sometimes I wonder if healing is supposed to feel this terrifying.
People always say, "Just let go." But what if letting go doesn't feel like freedom? What if it feels like losing the last piece of who you are?
Holding on hurts. It keeps you chained to memories that refuse to fade. But letting go feels just as frightening because I'm scared of what's left when they're gone.
What if, in trying so hard not to become bitter, cold, or empty, I end up becoming the very darkness I've spent so long fearing?
Maybe the hardest battle isn't with the past.
Maybe it's with the person you're afraid you'll become after surviving it.
I always fear the self I'll become if I let go of my scariest memory..
u/Realistic_Class2690 — 3 days ago