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Hina Gondal's avatar

Love your work 🫶

Josh's avatar

Thank you so much, Hina ♥️✨

Marwa Mabrouk's avatar

Love this piece 😊

Josh's avatar

I truly appreciate you ♥️

DavidA's avatar

Spot on.

Josh's avatar

Thank you, David! 🙏❤️

Phoeby's avatar

Your poem sounded to me like an argument of a couple who have been together forever. Very nicely written

Josh's avatar

Glad you like it, Phoeby 🙏 ♥️

Priya Hinduja's avatar

Love this! ❤️❤️

Josh's avatar

♥️🌹✨

Daniela Grothe's avatar

Contradicting parts in ourselves. That’s a thing I noticed about me, too, sometimes.

The urge to achieve something more on a day while wondering what first or feeling a need to rest.

Recently I feel more mindful and aligned though.

Josh's avatar

Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts, Daniela. I really appreciate it. 💙🙏

Dawnithic's avatar

You’ve captured the quiet truce between survival and sincerity. Neither voice is villain here; both are necessary muscles of the same heart. The stillness isn’t escape...it’s labor, honest and exhausting.

This dialogue feels less like a split and more like learning how to stay whole.

Josh's avatar

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. 🙏💙

Kregg Hill's avatar

Josh, this piece is so meaningful to me. Thank you 🫶🧘🏻🙏🏼

Josh's avatar

Thank you so much, Kregg 🙏💙

ruth zuñiga's avatar

Understanding these differences helps in managing

Personal energy is better. I believe one cannot exist without the other.

The ambivert

It is located in the middle

Adapting to both environments !

I really enjoyed it, great job!

Josh's avatar

Thank you very much. So happy you enjoyed it. 🙏🌹

Andrea Thorfinson's avatar

Oh wow… this felt less like reading a post and more like overhearing a conversation happening inside my own head. The dialogue between the part that shows up for the world and the part that sits quietly holding the deeper questions… you captured that tension so honestly, it almost made me exhale in recognition.

This line especially stopped me: “You’re the one who smiles when we’re drowning.”

I think so many of us live in that duality, functioning on the outside while something much quieter and heavier is being processed beneath the surface.

And I loved where you brought it, not choosing one self over the other, but letting them work together: “I’ll get us there.” “And I’ll make sure we’re actually present when we arrive.”

That felt like integration… like wholeness, not conflict.

Thank you for putting language to an inner experience many of us feel but rarely articulate so clearly. Truly beautifully written.

Josh's avatar

Aw, thanks so much for sharing your thoughts, Andrea. I truly appreciate you taking the time. ♥️🌹

Miles Hack's avatar

Real talk & a nice eye-to-eye closure. Awesome! 👏

Josh's avatar

Thanks so much, Miles! 🙏❤️

Miles Hack's avatar

You got it 🫡😁

Starlight's avatar

Very nice, accurate.

Josh's avatar

Thank you 💙