You Don’t Have To Carry It Here

on staying, returning, and not having to be strong all the time

There are places where you’re expected to arrive intact.

Where you bring the version of yourself that works.
That smiles.
That knows what to say.

This isn’t one of those places.

You don’t have to arrive healed here.
Or certain.
Or even sure why you came back.

You can show up quiet.
Unfinished.
Mid-thought.

You can come carrying something you don’t yet have language for.

Nothing here needs you to be impressive.
Nothing is asking you to make sense of yourself before you sit down.

You’re allowed to pause.

You’re allowed to rest without turning it into progress.
To feel without turning it into a story.
To stay without being watched.

Some spaces want your best self.
Others want your honest one.

This is closer to the second.

If you’ve been strong for a long time,
you don’t need to prove that here.

You don’t need to hold it together.
You don’t need to carry it quietly.
You don’t need to earn your place by being easy to love.

You can look at what’s heavy
from somewhere steady.

You can come back as you are.
And you can come back again.

Not everything meaningful announces itself.
Some things just stay open.

And if you’re still here,
you already know this wasn’t a one-time visit.

// Scorpio Veil