📝Stop Comparing Me

Stop comparing me to who I was when I was pretending to be fine.
To the version of me that smiled through exhaustion, said yes out of guilt, stayed quiet just to keep the peace.
That was not strength. That was survival.

Stop comparing me to others who were raised differently, loved differently, given different space to grow.
Their path is not mine.
Their pace is not mine.
Their story does not cancel out my own.

Stop comparing me to the image you built in your mind - the perfect daughter, the calm partner, the one who never disappoints.
I am not here to make everyone comfortable.

I am not who I was ten years ago.
Not even last year.
I am allowed to change.
To slow down.
To feel.

Let me be messy.
Let me be human.
Just let me be - without comparison.