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I Kept Calling Myself Lazy. I Was Starving for Space. →

July 16, 2025

Originally published July 2025 on Medium.
This essay dismantles the myth of laziness and reframes it as a hunger—for space, for rhythm, for a life not dictated by urgency. It’s a personal reckoning with internalized shame and inherited scripts, offering a gentler lens on what it means to pause, to need room, to resist the grind.

What if what we call “lazy” is actually a signal that something deeper needs tending?
Read it here: I Kept Calling Myself Lazy—I Was Starving for Space

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