there is comfort in safety in ______

coming home to find things exactly as you left them

falling into patterns, habits that

guide routines and

make you feel at home

________ is home

________ is peace, contentment

________ is looking at myself in the mirror as I walk by and not realizing this is what I look like

________ is baking a cake to share it with my flatmates

________is coming home to a made bed and an empty house

falling onto clean sheets and waiting for sleep to come

but the danger of ________ is stagnancy

the danger of ________ is slowly beginning to boil alive withput realising

there is a difference between ________ and good,

between comfort and beneficiality

between safety and suffering for the sake of stability

________ can be sleeping only three hours between work shifts and

drinking an entire thermos of coffee at work to stay awake

________ can be doing overtime every day but hiding it from your boss to make sure you don’t get in trouble

________ can be taking over your colleagues work because how else

are you ever gonna finish

________ can be slowly losing joy and not even realizing.

________ can suck without you realizing, but because it is ________,

you never deign to question it.

you keep asking for things to go back to ________ without realizing you’re actually asking for things to get better.

if you keep asking for ________, you’ll never realize you’re already there,

walking in circles,

waiting for a standard of the past

to become reality again.

there is a new measuring stick

use it, and stop waiting for things to go back to ________.