Falling Over The Edge

Some people learn how to exist without ever really feeling like they belong.
She's gotten good at it.
Smiling when she's supposed to.
Talking when it's expected.
Staying quiet when the weight of her own thoughts gets to loud.
From the outside, she looks fine.
But inside everything feels to heavy, like she's carrying something she can't put into the words, something that follows her onto every quite moment and lingers when no one else is around. And no matter how hard she tries to keep going, to keep pretending, it never really goes away.
Because some days aren't about living.
They're just about getting through.
But when something small, unexpected, starts to shift in the way she sees the world, she's forced to face the things she's spent years avoiding. The thoughts she never said out loud. The feelings she buried. And the question she's never been able to answer:
What happens when surviving isn't enough anymore?