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The Womanly Art of Self-Prioritization
I refuse to keep sacrificing my body and soul for a system that never returns the favor
The path in front of you stretches ahead, its horizon always just beyond reach. You run because you have to, because the world expects it, because to stop is to fall even more behind.
The weight of everything you haven’t checked off your to-do list presses down on your shoulders, each lingering task dragging you further into a growing pile of backlog. Time slips away, too fast, like water through your fingers. And you suspect you will probably never catch up.
There’s no end in sight, no finish line to cross, only this never-ending slog. Somewhere, deep down, you wonder if anyone ever really breaks the tape before they die. Or if we’re all just doomed to spend our lives running, forever chasing a moment that never comes.
Welcome to the self-sacrificing expectations of womanhood in the modern age.
Where did our lives get so turned around?
Me personally? I’m sick of it.
Sick of feeling like an empty toothpaste tube by day’s end. Sick of constantly running on empty. Sick of skipping my workout because I have too much…
