Member-only story
You Think You Are the Only One With Problems?
A conversation on a long walk filled with bad acting and the revisiting of a life lesson
(Non-members can read here)
A Walk to Not Remember
I sat on a park bench, waiting for her. The whole time I was alone, all I could think was to escape that meet-up.
A few weeks ago, she called to check up on me. When she asked about my long absence from Yoga classes, I thought it might be the right moment to tell her the truth.
That rekindled a hope I had given up on years ago —
‘I could share everything with her. She is older and wiser, she’ll understand’
‘I could finally take off the invisible masks I carry around just to get along’
‘I could be my authentic self without pretending to be fine all the time’
Renewed by a fresh sense of hope, I suggested we catch up sometime.
The meet-up had been my idea.
On the day of the meeting, I wished to postpone it again. Something felt off.
My intuition was right, the moment I got up from the park bench, to greet her, it had already begun —
my legendary act of keeping it all together, smiling more than usual…
