🫧 Episode43: Growing Up Feels a Little Lonely

This episode is for the loneliness of growing.

In Lumi’s world, growing pains are held gently 🤍

🌱 Synopsis 🌙

Growing up doesn’t always arrive loudly.
Sometimes it comes quietly, leaving a soft loneliness behind.

Lumi feels the distance between who she was
and who she is slowly becoming.

It’s not sadness—
just a gentle ache that says she’s changing.

The afternoon light felt different today.

Not colder.
Not darker.

Just… a little quieter.

Lumi sat by the window, watching clouds drift by.
They moved slowly, as if they weren’t in any hurry to become something else.

She used to name the clouds.
Dragons.
Castles.
Soft creatures only she could see.

But today, she simply watched them pass.

It wasn’t that she stopped believing.
It was more like… the space inside her had changed shape.

Her favorite ribbon lay beside her,
the color a little faded from time.

She touched it gently.

“I didn’t lose you,” she whispered.
“I just… don’t hold you the same way anymore.”

Growing up felt like standing on a quiet bridge.

Behind her were warm memories.
Ahead of her was something unknown.

And in between—

A soft loneliness.

Not the kind that hurts.
The kind that teaches.

Lumi took a slow breath.

She didn’t rush forward.
She didn’t run back.

She simply stayed.

Because growing up, she realized,
isn’t about leaving things behind.

It’s about carrying them more gently.

And even if the path felt lonely at times—

She wasn’t truly alone.

The magic was still there.
Just quieter.
Just deeper.

— Lumi🪄💕

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