On Trying To Figure Out Where You Fit
Displacement: the feeling of not really knowing where you fit. When you’re tied to a place you’ve always known but suddenly feel comfortable somewhere new.
Displacement: the feeling of not really knowing where you fit. When you’re tied to a place you’ve always known but suddenly feel comfortable somewhere new.
Yesterday, I wrote about a boy. But I really wrote about my heart. And with every honest realization, every articulated fear, it’s becoming stronger.
I have never been perfectly-folded petals, never been thorns around my heart. I have always been a sunflower, stretching, reaching, opening. Unafraid.
It’s the feeling you get when you feel whole, at home in your own skin – as if all the tiny pieces of you have finally melded together.