23/08/2026
The human longingā¦SO fascinating
The way the psyche can romanticise and fantasise about a reality so intensely that, when reality finally arrives, it can never quite live up to the imagination
So we dream again
But we canāt open ourselves to a new dream without first grieving the old one
I really donāt think we talk about this enoughā¦
There can be so much shame around not feeling purely grateful when we finally arrive at somewhere weāve spent so long wanting to be
But the grief is real
You can be deeply grateful for what you have and still grieve what you had to leave behind to get there
Because every time reality replaces fantasy, weāre not just letting go of what we imagined weāre letting go of a version of the future we once believed in
Yesterday morning I woke up as if it were the first time I had seen the sunlight, immense grief filled my heart, nostalgia came flooding in because I woke up to the truth that I am living in a dream that only wants to keep dreaming
Living in a mind that keeps reaching for the next possibility, the next version, the next imagined life
And maybe this is the strange ache of being human
We long for the dream
We reach the reality of the dream
We grieve when we wake up
And then we dream again
Iāve fulfilled so many things I once said I wanted
And as incredible as it is to look around and realise that some of the things I once imagined are now my reality, there is never really an end (until there is an end)
The soul keeps wanting to rewrite its karma
The mind keeps imagining
The spirit keeps longing to create
The body keeps growing and changing with time
And maybe the grief that lives inside us is simply the love that never stopped dreaming
The love we had for the life we imagined
The love we have for the life we are living
And the love we already feel for the life that hasnāt happened yet
The spaces I hold are grief portals, mastering the art of grieving each dream gently enough to make room for the next one
Iām curious, are you delaying your next chapter because youāre afraid to grieve?
Let me know what lands for you in the comments šš¼ā¤ļøāš„