mental-health
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Longing doesn’t get taken seriously. It’s often treated like a weakness. Like nostalgia. Like something indulgent you’re supposed to grow out of once you learn how the world really works. We’re told to be realistic. To manage expectations. To accept things as they are. Wanting more — especially wanting connection, tenderness, or meaning — is…
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Love stories are easy to dismiss. They’re often framed as soft or escapist — something we reach for when we don’t want to deal with the real world. But the real world right now feels anything but avoidable. It’s loud, isolating, and often cruel in ways that feel normalized. We’re encouraged to move quickly, take…
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For a long time, I believed the common line about reading: that books are an escape. A softer place to land. A way out of whatever feels unbearable in real life. But that stopped being true for me. Because the world we’re living in right now — America in 2025 — doesn’t just feel overwhelming.…
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