It started with good intentions. You were told to aim high, study hard, get a degree, and land a job. So you did.
You silenced the guitar that once kept you company late at night. You stopped sketching strange faces in your notebook margins. You postponed the quiet afternoons you used to spend just sitting by the window, staring at the sky and wondering what it all meant.
You became what the world asked of you—but lost what mattered most. You succeeded. You became the reliable adult, the professional, the one who gets things done. You earned the title, the promotion, the respect. But somewhere along the way, something slipped. A feeling, a fragrance, a thread of you.
You wake up now with to-do lists etched into your mind before your eyes have even opened. Your hands move with purpose. Your voice sounds confident in meetings. But there’s a hollowness you don’t talk about. You wonder if this is it. You wonder why you’re not fully alive.
In chasing a living, you lost your life. Modern education was built to shape citizens, workers, problem-solvers—not poets. It taught us how to think, but not how to feel. It prepared us to produce, but not to listen to the soul’s quiet whispers. We were taught to survive. We were not taught to stay whole.
It’s not too late to reclaim your true self
What if the version of you that once danced barefoot in the rain, that once filled pages with wild, messy dreams, is still waiting somewhere inside? What if reclaiming your forgotten self doesn’t mean abandoning the life you’ve built—but finally allowing it to mean something deeper?
Rediscovery gives meaning to everything you’ve built
There is a beauty in rediscovery. In finding that the spreadsheets and the software and the deadlines are not the enemy—but that they become sacred when guided by a soul that remembers why it came here.
You can be both. You can be the competent adult and the wide-eyed child. You can sign contracts in the morning and write poems at dusk. You can lead the boardroom with clarity because you meditated before dawn. You can bring your full self to the life you’ve built.
Reclaiming who you are isn’t rebellion—it’s return
And when you return, your education doesn’t lose value. It gains meaning. Your degree becomes a tool in the hands of a whole person. Your job becomes an offering. Your life becomes a message.
Follow the thread—it still leads home. You are not too far gone. You are not broken. You are simply ready. Go back and find the thread. Follow it. It still leads home.