{"id":385,"date":"2025-12-07T02:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T02:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildpoise.com\/?p=385"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:34:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:34:55","slug":"black-friday-made-soft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildpoise.com\/?p=385","title":{"rendered":"Black Friday Made Soft"},"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\">Black Friday Made Soft<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Day 5 &#8211; November 28, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today is Black Friday, which means the entire world is vibrating like an overstimulated ferret screaming \u201cSALE! BUY! CONSUME!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, I woke up with a very different internal memo, softness only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No chaos or crowds. No being hunted down by fluorescent lighting in a department store like I owe it money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Past me would\u2019ve tried to rally. She would\u2019ve been the girl with a latte in one hand, a list of must haves in the other, adrenaline in her eyes, and ten shopping bags threatening to dislocate her shoulder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Present me? Present me shuffled to the kitchen like a Victorian ghost, whispered to Roger that we are boycotting capitalism today, and wrapped myself in a blanket like a buttery, emotionally unstable croissant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn\u2019t even pretend I might leave the house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And honestly? Huge win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of those quiet victories you don\u2019t brag about but absolutely should. Instead of deal hunting, I did something far scarier. I slowed down enough to actually notice myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My mind is still foggy from the week. Like I\u2019m running emotional software updates in the background. My heart is still trying to remember its own rhythm. My nervous system is buffering so hard I\u2019m surprised there isn\u2019t a spinning wheel over my head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I let myself be exactly where I am. Not ahead, not behind. Just here. This moment. This breath. This oddly comforting level of underachievement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did I scroll through a few sales? Please. I\u2019m not a saint. But instead of impulse buying things that would arrive late and disappoint me on principle, I made a tiny list of things I genuinely want for this next version of my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not a wishlist. A vision list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A wishlist is \u201cmaybe someday.\u201d  A vision list is \u201cwhen I\u2019m ready.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that shift alone made everything feel intentional. Like my life is slowly arranging itself into something I actually want to live in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Black Friday usually comes with pressure. Buy more, save more, rush more, accumulate more, drown out the void with expedited shipping. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But today? Mine was quiet. Mine was mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I showered. I put on mascara even though no one would see me. Except my reflection, who frankly deserved a little effort. I started to get a load of laundry together and, in true me fashion, absolutely did not finish it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yes, I ate leftover pie for breakfast without a shred of guilt because I, too, am a holiday icon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It wasn\u2019t glamorous. It wasn\u2019t cinematic. It wasn\u2019t anything you could post on Instagram with a sparkle filter. But it was mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Healing looks like this sometimes. Not dramatic breakthroughs, not phoenix-rising montages, just tiny, unremarkable moments where you choose softness over survival mode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It didn&#8217;t feel like the day after Thanksgiving this year. But it did feel like a reset. A tiny whisper of normalcy. A reminder that even in the ruins of the last two years, I still know how to build a day that feels like me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And maybe quietly, slowly, without applause that\u2019s how you begin to get your life back. One gentle, deeply unremarkable morning at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And maybe quietly, slowly, without applause, that\u2019s how you begin to get your life back. One gentle, deeply unremarkable morning at a time. Because underneath the softness of today, there was something else moving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Something subtle. Something steady.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A reminder that healing doesn&#8217;t always announce itself with thunder. Sometimes it shows up disguised as leftover pie and a half-finished laundry cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The truth is, I\u2019m learning how to choose myself in the smallest possible ways and those ways are adding up. The quiet decisions. The soft refusals. The stillness I never gave myself permission to have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And today? Today was a kind of reclamation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not loud. Not dramatic. Just real, honest, and necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chaos in one hand. 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