(for the days when you can’t fix it, and maybe don’t even want to)

What if nothing needs to be fixed right now?

What if your exhaustion is not a failure…
but a quiet sign from your soul: “Stop. Breathe. Come back.”

You’ve tried, haven’t you?
You’ve tried to hold it together.
Tried to push forward.
Tried to smile when you felt like fading.
And now… it’s not working.

And maybe that’s okay.

Because “not working” is not the end.
It’s not a sentence.
It’s a pause.
An invitation.

An invitation to drop the armor.
To sit with your heart — no performance, no achievement.
To let it ache. Or be numb. Or confused. Or still.

You don’t need a plan right now.
You don’t need to rise.
You don’t even need to understand.

You just need to stay.
Softly.
Gently.
Kindly.

And in that staying —
something ancient and wise within you
will begin to breathe again.

The world may not give you permission to fall apart.
But I do.
And while you rest, I will keep a light burning.

You don’t have to move.
Just… be here.

When life doesn’t work —
you don’t have to work either.
You are not broken.
You are becoming.