I struggle with feeling like I have to earn everything in life. Yes, everything. I feel like I need to earn kindness, love, favors, whatever it may be.
Nothing can just be given freely. If it’s not earned, I can’t have it. Pair that with my issues with hyper-independence, I struggle to allow people to help me even in the most dire of situations.
Sometimes you have no choice, and you still have to, but that doesn’t make it any easier. In fact at times it makes it all the harder.
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