peace reminded me who I am I did not realize how lost I had become until peace entered my life and everything inside me finally became still enough to hear myself again. For so long, my mind was crowded with overthinking, survival, fear, disappointment, and emotional noise that I forgot what it felt like to simply exist without carrying the weight of everything at once. I became so used to chaos that I started mistaking it for normal, until healing showed me that my soul was never meant to live in constant emotional exhaustion. And when peace finally found me, it felt like waking up after being mentally and emotionally lost for years. The noise in my head slowly faded, the confusion loosened its grip, and I could finally think clearly without pain speaking for me. I began remembering the parts of myself that had been buried beneath stress, heartbreak, and survival. My laughter felt genuine again. My mind felt lighter. My heart no longer felt like it was constantly fighting to stay afloat. That is the beautiful thing about healing, it does not turn you into someone new. It brings you back to the person you were before life convinced you that you had to carry everything alone.