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Spoken word artist, writer, Bar aspirant @ Adekunle Ajasin University
Ondo, Nigeria
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Surviving myself
<p>Nobody really talks about this part.</p><p><br/></p><p>The part where nothing is exactly wrong</p><p>but nothing feels right either.</p><p>The part where your biggest battle</p><p>is not with people or life but your own mind.</p><p><br/></p><p>Because how do you explain</p><p>being tired when you did not really do anything?</p><p>How do you explain feeling overwhelmed</p><p>when everything around you looks normal?</p><p><br/></p><p>I have learned that the hardest kind of survival is quiet.</p><p>It is waking up every day and convincing yourself to keep going.</p><p>It is smiling in conversations while your thoughts are somewhere else entirely.</p><p>It is being present physically, but mentally you’re fighting things that you can not even put into words.</p><p><br/></p><p>And the crazy part is that people don’t even see it.</p><p>Because from the outside, you look like someone who has it all figured out </p><p>People even come to you sometimes</p><p>and ask,</p><p>“How do you do it?”</p><p>Like you’re not struggling the way they are.</p><p>And in your head, you’re just there thinking</p><p>If only you could see the things I don’t know how to explain.</p><p>But you can’t even say it.</p><p>Because how do you put into words something you’re still trying to understand yourself?</p><p><br/></p><p>And maybe that’s what this is</p><p>Learning how to exist while figuring yourself out.</p><p>Learning how to keep going</p><p>even when your mind does not feel like a safe place.</p><p>Because at the end of the day</p><p>surviving yourself is still survival.</p><p><br/></p><p>And maybe nobody claps for it,</p><p>maybe nobody even notices it</p><p>but it counts.</p><p><br/></p>
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