🪷 The rules we learn

on mental health, unmasking, and growing up

May 18, 2026

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The rules 
    we learn to follow
        follow us

and sometimes chase us down
    with shame 
        and stress.

"Keep it together." 
    "Smile."
        "Don't show pain."

The shadows 
    of our early rules
        remain,

darkening our minds 
    and moods,
        until

we learn to see 
    and rewrite them
        at will.