Take Back Control and Live Your Life

Bayinnah Shah
Chronicles of a Happy Loner
4 min readJun 18, 2023

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Everyone’s voices seem so loud over your own. Everyone’s constant booming voices mask the thoughts in your head. In fact, those voices are so loud that you think they are yours for the majority of the time.

When you live your life through the commands of these voices around you, you don’t feel like you, do you?

But, what are you supposed to do? You have been around these loud voices so long that you hear them even when the throats that these voices belonged to are no longer there.

So, you decided to play as an professional puppet with everyone else pulling your strings when they are present and their phantoms twisting you around when they aren’t.

It is suffocating to be a puppet to other people’s desires. As you get used to living in this awful way, it is even harder to get out. Especially if those voices belong to someone you love.

But, you have to realize, the person you love so very dearly isn’t going to go into the ground with you when it is time to go. No matter how distant or how close a person is, they really can never know you like you know you.

You have to realize, we aren’t going to be here forever. This life we have is fragile and it can end at any time. Are you going to live these seconds for someone else?

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Bayinnah Shah
Chronicles of a Happy Loner

A writer of powerful, creative stories to maximize your life. Find a safe, motivating space in this newsletter: andwecontinued.substack.com/