This is for you.
The one who is reading this with a heavy heart, a tired mind, and a spirit that feels like it’s running on empty. This is for you, the one who is smiling on the outside but screaming on the inside, the one who is everyone else’s rock but feels like you’re crumbling to sand.
I know you’re tired.
I know you’re tired of fighting, tired of holding it all together, tired of putting on a brave face. I know you’re looking at the mountain in front of you—whether it’s grief, a breakup, a job, a loss, or just the crushing, undefined weight of the world—and you feel like you cannot take one more step. You feel like you are treading water in a dark ocean, and your legs are getting so, so tired.
I need you to listen to me, right now, in this moment. Take a deep breath.
You are going to be okay.
I know “okay” feels impossible. It feels like a lie. It feels like a distant, unreachable shore. You can’t even imagine what “okay” looks like from where you are, and that’s fine. You don’t have to see the entire staircase; you just have to find the next tiny step.
Because this feeling you have right now? It is a storm. It is not your new climate. It is a visitor. It is not a permanent resident. It feels all-consuming, but it is not, by its very nature, permanent. All storms, no matter how powerful, eventually run out of rain. All nights, no matter how dark, eventually give way to the dawn. This is not the end of your story. This is just a hard chapter.
So, keep going.
And I need you to know that “keep going” doesn’t have to mean something heroic. It doesn’t mean you have to conquer the mountain today.
Sometimes, “keep going” just means “keep breathing.”
Sometimes, it just means getting out of bed.
Sometimes, it’s just drinking a glass of water, or taking a shower, or answering one email.
Sometimes, it’s just making it through the next hour.
That is enough. You are doing enough.
You have survived 100% of your worst days to get here. You are a museum of all the battles you have already won, even the ones you thought would break you. You have a strength inside you that you’ve forgotten about, a resilience that is written into your DNA.
This pain, this exhaustion… it will not last forever. It will pass. And you will be on the other side of it, looking back, and you will be so, so proud of the fact that you didn’t give up.
You are not broken. You are not a failure. You are a human being who is going through something hard. And you are going to be okay.
I promise.
Please, keep going.
