You Had a Plan—Now You Just Have Regret
You built a future in your mind. But someone else is living it.
The Timeline That Turned on You
You had a timeline.
A vision.
Not some vague wish—
a real plan.
By this age, you’d be settled.
In love, maybe.
Stable.
Creating something beautiful, something lasting.
You made sacrifices for it.
Chose safety when you wanted risk.
Chose ambition when you wanted rest.
You told yourself it would all be worth it—
because one day, it would happen.
And now?
Now you scroll past people
living the life you were supposed to have.
Wedding photos.
Vacation smiles.
Career wins with captions that read like tiny daggers.
They’re not bad people.
You don’t even resent them.
You just look at them and ache—
because they’re standing in the house
you built in your dreams.
And it guts you.
You want to be happy for them.
Sometimes you even are.
But underneath it all,
there’s this quiet voice that whispers,
“It should’ve been you.”
You mourn the life you didn’t get.
The one you almost had.
The version of you that didn’t fall behind,
get detoured,
get broken.
You try to let go.
You try to adjust the vision,
make peace with a different kind of future.
But the grief doesn’t ask for permission.
It just shows up—
in the middle of a scroll,
in the quiet between tasks,
in the sudden, sharp ache of remembering
how much you used to believe.
And now?
You’re not even sure what you’re aiming for anymore.
You just know it’s not this.
You didn’t lose a dream. You lost the you who believed it was still possible.
Still Sitting With It?
Sometimes the ache doesn’t move. It lingers. It asks for more. You don’t have to act yet. You can stay here. Feel deeper. Or follow it into something else that hurts in a different shape.
Stay in This Pain
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They offer truth.
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What you do with pain matters.
You can carry it. Or you can let it change what you still have.
Still Here?
The pain didn’t leave—but maybe you’re ready to walk with it instead of running from it.
Healing doesn’t start with answers. It starts with honesty. And you’ve already proven you can feel this deeply.
Now let’s see what living with it could look like.
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