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"came back wrong" what about Came Back Afraid. You used to be brave. Too brave maybe, defying the odds at every turn, a fighter, cocky, playing with fire, first to throw yourself at the enemy. Until one day it all caught up to you. You came back, somehow, but now you know all too intimately how it feels to lose, to die, to be destroyed. Now you flinch and freeze and cower at the slightest provocation. Who even are you now if you can't be brave? The grave may have let you go, but the mortal fear still grips you tighter than ever.
“We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim.”
And today is not the day where I am able to swim. Overthinking and sadness are drowning me. I can’t lose her yet. Not now, not in the days to come. She still has to witness a lot of milestones of mine.