Ama used to write with shaking hands.
Late at night, when the house was silent and the world seemed too heavy, she would curl over a notebook and pour her thoughts onto the page. The words didn’t always make sense, but they carried pieces of a pain she couldn’t explain out loud. Her heart was loud, but her voice felt small.
Writing became her refuge, the only place where chaos had shape. Every paragraph felt like a breath she had held for too long. Every sentence carried fragments of disappointment, heartbreak, and confusion. She didn’t write to be understood. She wrote to survive.
People saw her smile during the day, but they never saw the battle happening behind her eyes. Paper saw what others didn’t.
Weeks turned into months. Slowly, the sharpness of pain softened. The storms inside her didn’t rage the same way anymore. And one afternoon, when she picked up her pen, her words felt… different. Not desperate. Not drowning. Just honest.
She realised pain teaches survival, but healing teaches strength.
Ama’s writing began to change. Her words grew calmer, like the ocean after a long night of rain. She wrote about growth, about peace, about the small victories no one claps for. She found beauty in quiet healing and grace in moving forward.
One evening, flipping through her old journals, she saw the girl she used to be. Broken, tired, bruised by life, but brave enough to write anyway. She smiled softly, whispering:
“You made it.”
Now, when Ama writes, her ink carries gratitude instead of grief. Understanding instead of confusion. Her words feel lighter, as if her heart finally learned how to breathe.
Pain once gave her a voice.
Healing gave her purpose.
And now, every page is a testament to how far she has come, not because she never fell, but because she always found her way back through the words she dared to write.
