{"title":"Letter to Yourself","slug":"letter-to-yourself","url":"https://adilhamza.com/blog/letter-to-yourself","description":"About remembering you were never the problem.","datePublished":"2024-03-22T00:00:00.000Z","author":"Adil Hamza","tags":["Personal writing","Letter"],"text":"Perched on the edge of a chair, carrying dread in your chest and sometimes wishing for an escape from all of it, you find yourself close to a breaking point.\n\nYou know something has to change. You try to be the perfect son, hoping that maybe this time it will be enough. But slowly, painfully, you begin to realise that no matter how hard you try, it never seems to matter.\n\nEvery glance feels like it carries anger. The cycle of abuse, fear, and both physical and emotional pain keeps repeating, again and again.\n\nNo matter how clean the table is, how high the grades are, or how much effort you put in, it is never enough for him.\n\nBut kid, please remember this:\n\nYou were never the problem.\n\nStay strong. :)"}