I am like this, fragile and stubborn. Sometimes lost, sometimes determined.
There are moments when I know exactly what I want and others when I question myself and doubt every step.
I often surprise myself and not always in a good way.
I can be gentle and present, but also distant, absent, or unreadable.
My thoughts intertwine, my emotions tangle, and I keep going.
Sometimes I wish I could completely withdraw, to stop feeling, acting, existing.
Other times I throw myself into life, into the world, into sensations all at once.
I laugh, I am moved, I get frustrated, I am amazed all at the same time, sometimes with intensity, sometimes barely.
I wear no mask, even though some parts of me remain hidden.
There are areas I have never explored, wounds I keep closed, scars I touch gently.
I am impatient, slow, contradictory, strange, sometimes heavy, sometimes light.
I carry my mistakes, my anger, my doubts, but also my small victories, flashes of clarity, moments of courage.
I do not seek perfection and I do not need anyone to fully understand me.
I just want to exist, to stand, even when I feel uncertain or shaky.
I search for myself, I find myself, I lose myself, and I keep going.
I am silence and turmoil, restraint and impulse, fear and curiosity.
I am what is created in each moment, what defends itself, what reveals itself.
I am my contradictions, my limits, my wounds, my sparks.
I am my choices, my renunciations, my attempts, my mistakes.
I am chaos and order, haste and slowness, clarity and fog.
I am the gaze I cast on myself, on who I am and who I am not.
I am the one who moves forward even when uncertain, trembling, hesitant.
I am the one who breathes, who walks, who feels.
I am the one who persists even when everything in me wants to hide.
I am the one who tries to stay whole, even if it is imperfect, even if it is slow, even if it is complicated.
I am this self that I protect, that I discover, that I learn to accept.
I am all of this, and this is me, with my strengths, my fragilities, my sparks, my retreats.
I am this self, imperfect, sincere, alive.