Sometimes it feels like life is just too much. There are days when I would like to send a request to the universe: "Excuse me, can I have one day without chaos? Just one, please." But no, the universe clearly has other plans. Instead of a truce, I get an internet outage, spilled coffee, and the feeling that life is throwing countless challenges at me.
Sometimes there are days when everything is simply too much. A storm of thoughts, feelings, expectations. It doesn't matter why – maybe something happened, maybe it didn't. All I know is that in such moments I am overwhelmed by that feeling that life has stopped, that the air is thicker, the steps heavier. Then everything I want is reduced to a single wish: Find strength. Find peace.
But how do you find peace when everything is a blur?
Many times I tell myself that I can't understand everything. Sometimes the weight of the moment is simply too great to make immediate sense of. Then I say to myself: “You will just survive today.”
I don't need a big victory, nor a complete solution. I just need to take a small step forward. I get up. I take a walk. I wait for the wave to pass.
My rule on tough days? I don't pretend they don't exist.
When it's all too much, I admit to myself that I'm tired, overwhelmed, and let that feeling get to me. It's not the end of the world if I ever I cry. or I stop for a moment. Quite the opposite – that's when I show the most courage. The courage to admit to myself that I'm not always strong and that I don't have to be.
Tough times don't last forever. They always pass, I always find a way forward - and I know I will now too.
The next step is small.
Nothing big, nothing dramatic. I just decide to do one thing that makes the moment easier for me.
I get up and cook. tea. Or I listen to music, my favorite song, with my eyes closed, until I feel the world calm down. Maybe I step outside, even if it's just outside the door, to get some fresh air.
A simple walk, even when my legs feel like they can't take it anymore. The feeling of a warm blanket wrapping me in. Looking at the sky, even if it's cloudy, reminds me that the world is bigger than my current worries. It doesn't matter what it is, it matters, to move from that feeling that everything has stopped.
When the world is too hard, I repeat to myself the words: “This will pass.” Because everything passes. Even the weight I feel now won't stay forever.
Gratitude is my silent ally
Not the forced kind that feels empty, but a real, small gratitude. For having a roof over my head. For people who love me, even when I can't show it back. For being able to feel today, even when it hurts - because that means I am alive. And in this life force, in this heartbeat that never gives up, I find solace.
I remind you that I am not here to be perfect all the time.
I'm here to live, to try, to sometimes fall and sometimes laugh at my own awkwardness. If that means eating five pieces of cake today and watching romantic series all day, then so be it. Life is too short to make it harder for yourself.
And in the end?
In the end, there is always a new day. A fresh start. And then I say to myself: “You did it. You overcame this. Even when it was the hardest, you didn't give up.”
It doesn't matter how slowly I go or how often I fall. What matters is that I never give up. That even in the most difficult moments I find the strength to persevere – and that, in reality, is what counts.
If you're struggling right now with the feeling that the world is too hard, I want to tell you this: you're not alone.
Your pain is not insurmountable. Your problems do not define you. There is strength within you, even if you don't feel it right now. Step by step, day by day, you will get to the other side. And when you get there, you will see that you were strong enough all along. Even now, when you doubt yourself.
