Do you miss yourself?

Not necessarily the person you were
ten years ago,
but maybe some little things
you used to have more time for.

The things you did
just because they made you happy.
The afternoons that felt longer.
The moments when you weren’t thinking
about what came next.

Then life moves on.

Years pass,
we grow, we change,
and our days slowly fill up
with things that need to be done.

Until sometimes
we realise we’ve been giving
our time to everything
except ourselves.

Maybe we don’t need
to go back to who we were.

Maybe we just need
to give ourselves some time again.

A little time to stop.
To breathe.
To do something that is only ours.

Because life will keep moving.

And maybe we don’t always have to keep up with it. Sometimes we can simply let it move, while we take a little time for ourselves.

— Fuerpa Slow Journal