Do you ever wonder if there will ever be a time you don’t feel this way?
Guilt is often bred by family expectations. You’re doing too much or not enough. Your personality is too loud, too boisterous, too emotional. Yet you can never be smart enough, kind enough or thoughtful enough. You’re overshooting and underperforming.
Who’s side are you on when your parents fight? Couldn’t you have cleaned that better, studied harder, been more respectful to your aunties and uncles when they visited? Be quiet but talk louder. We can’t hear you but you don’t get to have a voice.
Nothing is enough. So what to do? Embrace what you love about yourself. Acknowledge all your wonderful ways. Be enough for you.
