{"id":383,"date":"2025-12-07T02:13:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T02:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildpoise.com\/?p=383"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:31:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:31:34","slug":"a-soft-plot-twist-in-my-own-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildpoise.com\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"A Soft Plot Twist in My Own Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"814\" height=\"62\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wildpoise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/85jfhjrer.png?resize=814%2C62&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-156\" style=\"aspect-ratio:13.134914145543744;width:472px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wildpoise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/85jfhjrer.png?w=814&amp;ssl=1 814w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wildpoise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/85jfhjrer.png?resize=300%2C23&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wildpoise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/85jfhjrer.png?resize=768%2C58&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wildpoise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/85jfhjrer.png?resize=18%2C1&amp;ssl=1 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 814px) 100vw, 814px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wildpoise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nhgftyuh.png?resize=450%2C100&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-286\" style=\"aspect-ratio:4.504854368932039;width:487px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wildpoise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nhgftyuh.png?w=450&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wildpoise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nhgftyuh.png?resize=300%2C67&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wildpoise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nhgftyuh.png?resize=18%2C4&amp;ssl=1 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1536\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wildpoise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ChatGPT-Image-Dec-7-2025-11_20_37-AM.png?resize=1024%2C1536&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-452\" style=\"width:35px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wildpoise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ChatGPT-Image-Dec-7-2025-11_20_37-AM.png?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wildpoise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ChatGPT-Image-Dec-7-2025-11_20_37-AM.png?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wildpoise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ChatGPT-Image-Dec-7-2025-11_20_37-AM.png?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wildpoise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ChatGPT-Image-Dec-7-2025-11_20_37-AM.png?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wildpoise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ChatGPT-Image-Dec-7-2025-11_20_37-AM.png?resize=8%2C12&amp;ssl=1 8w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>A Soft Plot Twist in My Own Story<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>aka: <\/em>Thanksgiving Day<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Day 4 &#8211; November 27, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today feels different. Not cinematic-different. The sky didn\u2019t open, an eagle didn\u2019t land on my deck with a message from the universe, and I didn\u2019t suddenly understand the meaning of life. No. Today is different in that tiny, barely noticeable, deeply suspicious way like something inside me finally exhaled after holding its breath for far too long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s Thanksgiving, and this year I refused to perform. I didn\u2019t force cheerfulness. I didn\u2019t pretend I had the emotional bandwidth of a Hallmark movie protagonist. I didn\u2019t slap an \u201cI\u2019m fine!\u201d sticker on my forehead for tradition\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I let myself have a quiet holiday and shockingly, it didn\u2019t feel like failing at adulthood or womanhood or holiday-dom. It felt like a choice. A good one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I made coffee slowly, like I actually intended to taste it.  I curled my hair even though I wasn\u2019t going anywhere. And maybe that sounds silly, getting ready for no audience, but I think I needed to see a version of myself that wasn\u2019t bracing for impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just me. A girl in her kitchen. Softly trying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn\u2019t have plans. And yes, there was a flicker of loneliness because I\u2019m a human being and not a decorative houseplant. But there was also a strange peace in having absolutely nowhere to be. No expectations, no roles, no performative gratitude rituals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I sat in the hush of my little apartment and let gratitude arrive however it wanted. And it surprised me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gratitude didn\u2019t feel like a list this year. Or a pressure. Or a performance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It felt like moments. The stillness of my living room. The softness of a blanket draped around my shoulders. Roger asleep at my feet like an adorable guardian angel. The quiet hum of existing without fear for a few hours. Which felt like its own small miracle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanksgiving used to be loud for me. Full of expectations and masks and versions of myself I outgrew long before I admitted it. But today was the opposite. Today felt like reclaiming something. Presence, maybe. Maybe even peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were waves, obviously. Memories with sharp edges. Grief knocking like a rude neighbor. A heaviness that sat on my chest for a bit before wandering off to bother someone else. Healing is inconvenient like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But even inside all of that, there were these thin, glittering threads of becoming. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tiny but undeniable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe gratitude this year isn\u2019t about joy or clarity or triumph. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s just a small, steady recognition that I\u2019m still here. Still moving. Still trying to rise even if the rising is slow and sometimes sideways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tonight, I lit a candle for myself. Not for celebration. Not for ambiance. But for acknowledgment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A tiny flame for the girl who\u2019s been carrying more than anyone knows and hasn\u2019t stopped trying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanksgiving looked different this year. But so do I. And maybe gently, quietly that\u2019s something to be grateful for. Because somewhere between the silence, the softness, the grief that came uninvited, and the tiny pockets of peace I didn\u2019t expect I realized I\u2019m not performing my life anymore. I\u2019m actually living it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if it\u2019s awkward.<br>Even if it\u2019s quiet.<br>Even if it\u2019s nothing like the girl I used to pretend to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m still learning how to trust this version of myself. The one who puts on makeup for no one, who chooses solitude without shame, who lets gratitude arrive without a script.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I like her&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She feels honest.<br>She feels possible.<br>She feels like someone I could grow into without losing myself again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So here\u2019s to this small, strange, sacred shift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To the quiet holidays. To the soft victories. To the moments that don\u2019t look like much from the outside but feel like reclamation from the inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chaos in one hand. Grace in the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And me finally letting both belong.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1536\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wildpoise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ChatGPT-Image-Dec-7-2025-11_20_37-AM.png?resize=1024%2C1536&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-452\" style=\"width:35px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wildpoise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ChatGPT-Image-Dec-7-2025-11_20_37-AM.png?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wildpoise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ChatGPT-Image-Dec-7-2025-11_20_37-AM.png?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wildpoise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ChatGPT-Image-Dec-7-2025-11_20_37-AM.png?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wildpoise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ChatGPT-Image-Dec-7-2025-11_20_37-AM.png?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wildpoise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ChatGPT-Image-Dec-7-2025-11_20_37-AM.png?resize=8%2C12&amp;ssl=1 8w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 4 &#8211; Today feels different. 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