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You're Allowed to Take Up Space

A Message to Myself

By LoneBugPublished 4 years ago 1 min read
You're Allowed to Take Up Space
Photo by Steinar Engeland on Unsplash

Stop.

Stop living in-between other people's lives.

Stop apologizing for taking up space.

You live in spare moments, you tuck your life into corners and empty spaces, you hide yourself between other people's needs,

But living in the folded pages of someone else's life is not living at all.

Stop begging for print space in someone else's story.

It's time,

It's time for you to write your own book.

Stop,

You have made yourself small, you have tried to remain unseen, you neglect you own needs because it's easy, because it's what you're used to,

but it's not what you deserve.

sad poetry

About the Creator

LoneBug

Hey y'all! Thanks so much for dropping by, and I hope you find something you like. Most of what I put out will be fiction, or mental health related. After all, they do recommend to write what you know.

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