the ache of being the eldest daughter energy 🧺🕯️

Maybe you were responsible before you had the words for it. Watching moods. Helping out. Remembering things. Being mature. Not causing trouble. Holding your own feelings quietly because there was already enough going on 🧺 And now people praise how capable you are, but nobody asks what it cost.

Being capable can become a cage if everyone keeps handing you keys to other people's problems 🕯️🤍 You deserve to be cared for without first proving you're at the edge. You deserve to be silly, uncertain, irresponsible in tiny harmless ways. You deserve someone else remembering the details sometimes. Tonight, put down one invisible job. You know the one. The thing you automatically carry because if you don't, who will? Maybe it can wait. Maybe someone else can learn. Maybe the world can wobble a little while you rest. You are not here only to make everything easier for everyone else 🌙