When the Darkness Feels Too Heavy

What do you do when the world feels like it’s crushing you? When the weight of everything presses harder than before? When the tears stay trapped in your chest, suffocating you from the inside?

The tightness spreads, squeezing your ribs, crushing every bone you have. Your breath—shallow, uneven—makes you lightheaded, dizzy with emotions too dark to escape. Your hands tremble, your body sweats, but the cold doesn’t leave you.

What do you do then?

How do you escape feelings that feel inescapable?

How do you pull yourself out of a loop that keeps dragging you back?

And what if—just what if—everything you’ve ever wanted is the very thing you keep running from? Because you’re scared. Because getting hurt again feels unbearable. Because you know how it feels to turn into ashes after crashing down, and you don’t know if you can rise again.

But deep down, you also know… one day, you won’t be able to run anymore. One day, the darkness will catch up. One day, you’ll have to stop pretending to be strong and just admit—admit how much you want it. How much you’ve always wanted it. How much you’ve longed for it, kept it buried inside, carried it through sleepless nights, through silent screams, through the loneliness that never quite leaves.

What do you do then?

Maybe, just maybe, you stop running.

Maybe, for the first time, you let yourself feel.

Maybe you let the darkness come. And maybe, you survive it.