there is comfort in safety in ______<\/p>\n
coming home to find things exactly as you left them<\/p>\n
falling into patterns, habits that<\/p>\n
guide routines and<\/p>\n
make you feel at home<\/p>\n
________ is home<\/p>\n
________ is peace, contentment<\/p>\n
________ is looking at myself in the mirror as I walk by and not realizing this is what I look like<\/p>\n
________ is baking a cake to share it with my flatmates<\/p>\n
________is coming home to a made bed and an empty house<\/p>\n
falling onto clean sheets and waiting for sleep to come<\/p>\n
but the danger of ________ is stagnancy<\/p>\n
the danger of ________ is slowly beginning to boil alive withput realising<\/p>\n
there is a difference between ________ and good,<\/p>\n
between comfort and beneficiality<\/p>\n
between safety and suffering for the sake of stability<\/p>\n
________ can be sleeping only three hours between work shifts and<\/p>\n
drinking an entire thermos of coffee at work to stay awake<\/p>\n
________ can be doing overtime every day but hiding it from your boss to make sure you don’t get in trouble<\/p>\n
________ can be taking over your colleagues work because how else<\/p>\n
are you ever gonna finish<\/p>\n
________ can be slowly losing joy and not even realizing.<\/p>\n
________ can suck without you realizing, but because it is ________,<\/p>\n
you never deign to question it.<\/p>\n
you keep asking for things to go back to ________ without realizing you’re actually asking for things to get better.<\/p>\n
if you keep asking for ________, you’ll never realize you’re already there,<\/p>\n
walking in circles,<\/p>\n
waiting for a standard of the past<\/p>\n
to become reality again.<\/p>\n
there is a new measuring stick<\/p>\n
use it, and stop waiting for things to go back to ________.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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