For the longest time, I kept hearing it: “This is your breakthrough year.” “This is your momentum year.” I listened to so many tarot readings, clinging to hope. Waiting. Wondering when life would finally start to move again. But nothing changed — not on the outside. My career didn’t take off. I stayed mostly at home, in my room, feeling stuck, almost invisible. Since 2023, my world became small and silent. It wasn’t just burnout. It was pain. It was trauma — the kind that doesn’t show. I had been bullied in a workplace by people I trusted. That experience broke something inside me. I lost my sense of safety, my confidence, and most painfully… my courage. I stopped going out. I avoided places where I might see them again. Even taking a train back to my hometown became terrifying. My heart raced. I felt like I was going to fall apart. That one-hour-and-thirty-minute journey felt like a lifetime. I kept asking the universe: “Where is my momentum? When will the breakthrough...
I took the LRT on 7 June 2025 to delivered biscuits for my friend. 7 June 2025 was a usual weekend. A big sunny day. I stepped into the light railway transit station, like I used to be. It is the very first time since I learned how pain can linger in places, in metal seats and station platforms, in the spaces between strangers’ eyes. There was a time I couldn’t breathe in crowds. A time I traded my presence for invisibility. Grab rides became my world. Tarot became my anchor. Silence became my safest friend. Tear is my dearest lover. But today… I stepped back into the world. No panic. No tight chest. Just a quiet steadiness. I did something completely wild I went to that shopping mall. The place I avoided for years because I knew they — the people who bullied me, who used to eat there, laugh there, walk around like they owned the air and space. I sat there for lunch with seat next to a big window. For two hours. No hiding. No rushing. No earph...
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