The worst feeling isn’t when people call you a failure; it’s when you look silently in the mirror and there is heavy silence of feeling like one yourself. It’s when your voice inside you tells you that you’re not enough and somehow a loser. And even though you want to shut it out, it sticks, an unwelcome shadow following you around.
It’s that sinking weight that makes you want to pull back from people, even your closest friends because their lives seem to be filled with progress and accomplishment while you’re just… stuck. Stuck in a loop of feeling like you’re not good enough like you’re somehow missing the mark in a game everyone else seems to be winning.
Right now, I feel like a complete failure, and it’s a weight that sits with me constantly. I know it’s a painful label to carry, and deep down, I don’t want to feel this way.
I want to do something that proves I’m not a loser, not a failure — not to the world, but to myself.
It’s not about proving anything to the world; it’s about proving to myself that I’m capable, have worth and purpose, and am not this…