the “shoulds”
a poem
In these moments the guilt is overwhelming, an emotion that says
you should have done better you should have been better you should have known better
a martyr emotion that tells me the only expectation of me is to expect my sacrifice against others’ needs.
it’s overwhelming how strongly guilt can be planted like a seed, growing unruly like a weed, unwanted, painfully overgrown, suffocating all else.
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Hi I’m Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她) and the word should is a source of such a disproportionate amount of my guilt. PS, I PUBLISHED A BOOK 📚
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