A sample of Little by Little
Little by Little
Taj Arora
Thought Catalog Books — thoughtcatalog.com — New York • Los Angeles
Copyright © 2021 Taj Arora. All rights reserved.
Published by Thought Catalog Books, an imprint of the digital magazine Thought Catalog, which is owned and operated by The Thought & Expression Company LLC, an independent media organization based in Brooklyn, New York and Los Angeles, California.
This book was produced by Chris Lavergne and Noelle Beams with art direction and design by KJ Parish. Special thanks to Bianca Sparacino for creative editorial direction and Isidoros Karamitopoulos for circulation management.
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ISBN 978-1-949759-34-1
You were a seed
hopeless and alone
in the darkness
unknowing of its own potential
to bloom
To know oneself means to unlearn
who you think you are
who you think you’ve been
and who you think you are becoming
I am just a vessel
for the message
trying to get to you
You’ll know you’ve healed
when you find gratitude
in the pain
that once broke you
The knots in your chest
will dissolve
and you will learn
to breathe again
You were enough then and you are enough now
your pain never defined you, and never will
You’ve got to trust
that the light within you is enough
to guide you out of the darkness
Do not tell your friends to show up
as the wild women they are
while you hide yourself timidly in the shadows
It is not your job to fix people. I know your heart aches seeing the people you love in pain. But it is not your job to make their burden your own—that is not your path. You heal nobody by remaining stuck. It’s only when you heal yourself that you show others the way out. We heal by following the example of the healed.
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