My Musings

When people talk about success, the words that usually come up are predictable: money, power, influence, status. Shiny stuff. The kind of things that get you applause in rooms full of people who don’t actually know you. And for a while, I nodded along. That’s what we were told, right? Work hard, climb the ladder, get the title, the house, the lifestyle. But here’s the uncomfortable truth I had to stare down: you can check all the boxes and still feel completely hollow. There’s this subtle ache that creeps in when you do everything “right” …

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The plan was airtight. Weight goals, pace targets, product roadmap, better skin, better food, better relationship. It was colour-coded and ambitious enough to make me feel like I’d finally figured it out. One spreadsheet. One system. One shot at resetting everything. Day one went fine. Day two, I was sitting on the kitchen floor at 11:30 a.m., eating bread straight from the packet and staring blankly at my untouched workout plan. Nothing major had gone wrong. No crisis. No breakdown. Just a vague cloud of apathy, some bloating, …

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I thought I was paying attention. I could tell when someone got defensive, when a room shifted, when a word landed wrong. I thought I was reading the room. Turns out, I was just reading myself. Every situation was filtered through my world—my fears, my logic, my assumptions. I was reacting to my version of events, not what was actually happening. Which explains why I kept getting blindsided. Then came an argument that cracked the pattern. The kind that spirals fast—both of us talking louder, hearing less. In the middle of that mess, …

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