Reconnecting to Who I Am

Reconnecting to Who I Am

by MissT

I’m reconnecting to who I am — to my youth, my memories, and the young woman who once fled her life to live in Cardiff.

I ran from a drunken mother, an absent father, and the grief of losing my grandmother — the woman I loved more than life itself. She was everything I’d ever hope to become: kind, loving, stable, constant, and calm. Logical and present.
Everything my home life was not.

So there I was, alone in a big city, trying to step into a world far larger than the small-town girl I used to be. A place where I was always someone’s daughter, or someone’s girlfriend, but never just me.

The city held my secrets.
It let me choose who I wanted to be.
The script was finally mine to write.

In time, I found my footing. I met a local man, built a home, and raised two beautiful daughters. Ten years of stability. Ten years of love.
But my restless heart began to stir. I felt like part of the furniture — seen, but not alive.

At thirty-one, I had already lived five lifetimes. And the place I’d once escaped was suddenly calling me home.

And that… is just the beginning of my story.

MissT x