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There is a version of me that exists in the text messages I have not sent yet. It is the version that wants to say actually, I already have plans that night.

There is a version of me that exists in the text messages I have not sent yet. It is the version that wants to say actually, I already have plans that night.

There is a particular kind of confidence that I used to see in other people and that I wanted badly enough to imitate. It was the kind that looked effortless.

I've done the five AM club. I've done the journaling at sunrise. I've done the cold plunge, the meditation app streak, the gratitude journal that lasted.

I remember the exact feeling: a small, cold recognition in my chest, like a door clicking shut somewhere I couldn't name. I remember thinking, defensively,.

It was my friend Mara's birthday, six years ago, in a bar in the Pearl District that had exposed brick and string lights and approximately nine hundred people.