In The Mind of Someone Who Is Defeated

Jessica J
5 min readFeb 28, 2021
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Sometimes waking up can be hard. Before you can even get up you feel a pressure holding you down.

There’s a pressure to succeed, to meet a standard that was created for you long before anyone knew you would exist.

Sometimes I wake up feeling pressured to work as many hours as I can, eat as many healthy foods as I can, be as productive as I can, workout to be as attractive…

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