Archive for November 2025

If Part I names the external pressures, Part II turns inward. Even when the economy steadies, even when the headlines calm, many of us still feel hollow. We succeed at work and still feel unworthy. We sit across from friends and still feel unseen. We wake up next to someone we love and still wonder if they really know us.

Happiness falters here: in the silence between unanswered texts, in marriages where two people share a bed but not their hearts, in bodies that carry weariness with every step.