All the Glitters A few years ago, I first heard the word glimmer when I was neck-deep in the kind of darkness that doesn’t just surround you — it drowns you. When the air feels heavy. When even breathing feels like effort. People kept saying sh*t like “look for the good,” and I remember thinking - what the f@ck is good?Because when everything around you feels like it won't get any better than this, and you don’t even trust your own thoughts or feelings, you stop trusting that goodness and light even exist. But the word glimmer landed differently. It wasn’t telling me to be positive, or pretend things were peachy, or to fix anything. It just asked me to notice - the tiniest flicker of something that felt… just not awful. So, I started small. Really small. If my glimmer was the way a piece of candy melted on my tongue when I needed comfort — that counted. If it was a warm cup of coffee that didn’t fix anything but made me pause because that first sip tasted perfect — that counted too...
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