No shame in hiding

For the past 6 months, I’ve been hiding and escaping.

It was too difficult to face head on, so I escaped.

I read vicariously.

Reading allowed me to escape reality.

While it was an escape, it didn’t solve anything; which made me feel ‘bad’ about the whole process.

But today I remembered this video snippet from the grandma in ‘Our Unwritten Seoul’:

"If a hermit crab hides in fear of being eaten, is it a coward? They're all just trying to survive. You're hiding to survive, too".

"No matter how pathetic or messy it looks, anything you do to survive is brave".

I gotta say, I love grandma.

I’m doing my best to survive.

And it’s only when I survive that I can thrive.

And writing this note is the start. Here’s hoping🤞