Slowing down and refocusing

Dana
2 min readOct 2, 2024

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Note: I prompted chatGPT to help write me this blog based on a paragraph of thoughts and ideas I had desired to write about. Although it’s written quite decently, it doesn’t feel like my voice. But I hope you all enjoy this post nonetheless.

Lately, I’ve been feeling like life is moving at a pace I can’t quite keep up with. It’s as if everything around me is swirling — friends are getting married, having kids, going through divorces — and yet here I am, standing still. It’s unsettling, feeling like I’m at a crossroads without a clear path forward. I keep asking myself: where am I really headed?

The anxiety of not knowing what’s next or feeling stuck in the same place is something I’ve been wrestling with for a while. I don’t hate where I am — there’s a certain comfort in the city I live in, even though I’m still figuring out what makes it feel like home. But the decisions that seem to be looming feel daunting, and it’s scary to even consider taking a leap when I don’t know where it will land me.

One of the biggest uncertainties for me is love. So many people I know seem to be settling into relationships, starting families, building lives together. Meanwhile, I find myself longing for something I can’t quite grasp — a safe place, a sense of comfort, knowing that someone is there to support me. But as much as I want that, I don’t know how to get there.

I realize that slowing down might be the key. Instead of rushing into decisions, maybe it’s time to reflect, focus inward, and give myself the space to figure out what I really want — not what I think I should want based on where everyone else is.

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Dana
Dana

Written by Dana

a person with wanderlust and medium-size dreams, sharing her suffering and joy with the world through words