There’s been enough talking at you.
About what you should do. How you need to be stronger. How you need to change.
This book does something different.
It comes and sits next to you.
In the moments when your head takes over.
On the evenings when everything feels like too much.
In the moments when you just want to disappear for a while.
Not to fix you.
Not to save you.
Just to stay with you while we look together at what’s here right now.
From the outside everything looks normal.
You function. You take care of things. You smile.
But inside something walks alongside you.
Thoughts.
Restlessness.
Fear.
Or that one sigh:
“I just want some rest.”
And sometimes it feels like nobody really sees how much energy it costs to keep everything going.
This book isn’t about control.
Not about positive thinking.
And not about improving yourself.
It’s about something much smaller.
And maybe much more human.
Someone who stays sitting beside you while it’s hard.
So that you slowly discover that you don’t have to get away from yourself when things get heavy.
What if you don’t have to be stronger?
Not calmer.
Not better.
What if you’re just allowed to sit the way you are right now?
Maybe something starts there that is much gentler than fighting against yourself.
After everything.
After all the nights.
After all the moments when you thought you couldn’t cope.
You’re still here.
That says something.
Sometimes it’s enough when some one stays sitting next to you.
