They wonder how you're still upright after everything you've lived through. They ask if you ever feel like walking away. What they don't see is this: Most people collapse right before their life shifts. You thought youd reached your limit a hundred times, yet somehow you kept moving through the fire anyway. You've carried storms that should've broken you-loss that hollowed you out, distance that shattered families, money worries that stole your sleep, panic that made your hands shake, pain you had no language for. But you didn't disappear. You stayed. You held yourself together on days no one even knew you were falling apart. And when you finally look back, you tell yourself, "I shouldn't have survived that." But you did. You walked through things that would've ended someone else's story. That quiet resilience you built in the dark? That's what keeps you standing now. People like you don't quit at the finish line. You've already crossed it without even realizing. You made it-long before you ever gave yourself credit.