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For 2025 — Learn To Rely On YOU!

Annelise Lords
Soul Magazine
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4 min readJan 9, 2025

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You are the only one feeling your pain, shame, and failure!

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Inspired by: The Silent Battle of a Topper modester-aish

She said, “Falling from the pedestal of perfection, I navigate the weight of expectations and my silent struggles.”

Perfection is the illusion that will always destroy our lives. — Annelise Lords

I had an impatient life and had to raise myself from fourteen years old in a poor country. #Iintend2Survive, so I use my imagination to find creative, innovative ways to live.

I feel left alone. People seem not able to see the struggle behind my smiling face. modester-aish

Only a caring heart that has been where you are can read the pain and agony behind a smile. I can. When you are the strong one, energy isn’t given to you—it’s taken. So, you must find a way to be your own source of strength. This is why I learned to depend on myself at a young age.

I made myself strong, so when I need strength, I am there for myself when no

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