Does Not Ask for Collapse Schedule

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Sometimes life does not send you just one thing—it sends you a flood. Work, relationships, health, money, exhaustion... All of them knock on your door at once. You do not want to open it, but they have already come inside. You sit down. You look around. You do not know where to begin because everything is hurting at the same time.

It is at this moment that the question enters your mind: "Will it always be like this?"

You wake up in the morning and your first thought is an unresolved problem. While drinking your coffee, your mind is in three different places at once. You smile while talking to someone, but that weight remains inside you, refusing to leave.

The worst part is this: It becomes harder and harder to believe it will pass. Because the mind works this way—it colors the past with the hues of the present and projects the same colors onto the future. It makes you feel as if it has always been this way, as if it will always be this way... When you look through the fog of this moment, everything appears gray—both behind you and ahead. But this is only a feeling, not reality.

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You can manage if there is one thing. Two things are hard but you hold on. But when five, six, seven things arrive at once, the phrase "just be strong" starts to sound empty. You are right—it is empty. No one was born to say, "Carry a load of five burdens and still stand firm."

The insidious nature of these overlapping periods lies here: Each burden on its own is bearable. But together, they begin to crush you slowly, piece by piece. This is not collapse—it is the gradual fall of your defenses. One day you cry, but you cannot quite say why. Because there is no single cause—only accumulation. And accumulation is the heaviest burden of all.

Asking this question is deeply human. It is not shameful, nor is it weakness. But I have noticed this: The question "Why me?" anchors you to this moment. With this question, you keep spinning in place. There is no answer anyway—life does not operate on a system of fairness. Sometimes all misfortunes cluster into one period; in another, none appear at all.

Sometimes asking this instead helps you stay upright: "What can I do right now?" It does not have to be a grand gesture. Today it might be just drinking water. Just picking up your phone. Or stepping outside for five minutes... It is a small thing, but it is real within this moment.

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I know this sounds cliché. At the very moment you are living it, the phrase "this too shall pass" feels like a slap—as if your pain is being dismissed. But I want to clarify: When we say "it will pass," we are not erasing your pain.

What we mean by "it will pass" is this: The intensity of this moment will change. One morning you will wake up and your first thought will not be this problem. You will sip your coffee and stare blankly at the wall for five minutes—but this time, you will not feel that weight. That moment will come. I do not know when, but it will come. In every difficult period of your past, the "you" of that time lived through this too. You did not know it then, but it passed. This moment will pass as well.

·       You do not have to fight every day. Sometimes just finishing the day is enough.

·       You do not have to appear fine to everyone or pretend you are okay.

·       You do not have to solve everything right now. Some things find their way even without resolution.

·       Sleeping, watching something, doing nothing for a while... These are not escapes—they are breaths.

·       And asking for help—this may be the bravest thing you can do during this time.

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If you are in this moment right now and you have come across this writing: I do not know you, nor do I know exactly what you are going through. But I know this: Continuing despite such a heavy burden, still reading something, still existing in some way—this is not a small achievement.

Perhaps you do not realize it, but I see it.

This too will pass. And when it does, on the morning when you realize it is over... That moment will be one of the most beautiful in your life.

"No matter how long the darkness lasts, the sun rises again."