<p><br></p><p>YOU vs YOU</p><p>A Letter From the Part of You That’s Tired of Watching You Lie to Yourself</p><p><br></p><p>There are two of you.</p><p><br></p><p>One that talks.</p><p>And one that remembers everything you said and never did.</p><p><br></p><p>Let’s talk about them. The quiet one. The one who’s been watching.</p><p><br></p><p>Because here’s what no one tells you:</p><p>You are not in competition with the world. You are in competition with your own capacity for self-destruction.</p><p><br></p><p>No stage. No enemy. No cheering.</p><p>Just you.</p><p>And the version of you who knows better but doesn’t do better.</p><p><br></p><p>The version of you that could have gone for it.</p><p>But flinched.</p><p>That could have left, but stayed.</p><p>That could have become, but chose instead to stay under construction, forever.</p><p><br></p><p>That version of you is clever.</p><p>They wear procrastination like velvet.</p><p>They whisper you back into comfort with seductive little lies:</p><p><br></p><p>> “We’re just waiting for the right time.”</p><p>“We’re not ready yet.”</p><p>“It’s safer here.”</p><p>“Let’s not risk losing what we already have.”</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>They sound like wisdom.</p><p>But they’re just fear dressed in your own voice.</p><p><br></p><p>And the truth is, you’ve gotten good at lying to yourself.</p><p>Spectacular, even.</p><p>You tell yourself you're healing, but really you're hiding.</p><p>You call it boundaries, but it’s avoidance.</p><p>You name it self-love, but it’s self-preservation dressed up in affirmations and bath bombs.</p><p><br></p><p>Let’s be brutal:</p><p>You’re not stuck. You’re scared.</p><p><br></p><p>Scared of what it would mean to actually win.</p><p>Because then you lose the right to keep calling yourself potential.</p><p>Then the safety net of “someday” disappears.</p><p><br></p><p>And that’s the catch, isn’t it?</p><p><br></p><p>It’s not failure you fear—</p><p>It’s success.</p><p>Because once you succeed, you can’t hide behind excuses.</p><p>You can’t pretend anymore.</p><p>You’d have to actually become what you say you are.</p><p><br></p><p>So you sabotage.</p><p>Quietly. Elegantly. Subconsciously.</p><p><br></p><p>You scroll instead of study.</p><p>You date instead of heal.</p><p>You gossip instead of grow.</p><p>You keep rearranging your life like it’s furniture, hoping one day it’ll finally feel like a home.</p><p><br></p><p>But it won’t.</p><p>Not until you face the only person who’s been holding the knife.</p><p>Not until you admit: It’s always been you.</p><p><br></p><p>The missed chances.</p><p>The conversations you didn’t have.</p><p>The talent you left untouched.</p><p>The hard choices you left on snooze.</p><p>All of it—you.</p><p><br></p><p>So what now?</p><p><br></p><p>Here’s what:</p><p>Forgive yourself.</p><p><br></p><p>Not in the soft, poetic way.</p><p>Forgive yourself violently.</p><p>Forgive yourself by becoming the person you were afraid to be.</p><p>Forgive yourself by doing the thing that scares you to death.</p><p><br></p><p>Stop making promises.</p><p>Start making proof.</p><p><br></p><p>Stop posting about growth.</p><p>Grow.</p><p><br></p><p>Stop collecting dreams like trinkets.</p><p>Pick one and make it real.</p><p>Make it ugly. Make it messy. But make it yours.</p><p><br></p><p>Because at the end of this life, it won’t matter how many people followed you.</p><p>What will matter is:</p><p>Did you ever stop running from yourself long enough to meet the version of you that didn’t flinch?</p><p><br></p><p>You vs You.</p><p><br></p><p>There’s no crowd here.</p><p>No claps.</p><p>No trophies.</p><p><br></p><p>Just the mirror.</p><p>And whether or not you can look into it, and say:</p><p><br></p><p>> “I didn’t win every day. But I stopped running. And I fought.</p><p>No one is watching...</p><p>But It still matters!</p>
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