My Version of Events
Essays on Courage, Loss, and the Return to Self
Welcome to a different way of dating
When you think of dating, what comes to mind?
Excitement. Confusion. Hope. Fatigue.
We’ve all been there.
But what if dating wasn’t about finding someone else?
What if it was about meeting yourself…
without performance, fixing, or pretending.
This experience invites you to date yourself through a collection of raw, intimate personal essays.
This is life…
not as it should be,
but as it feels.
ACT I
Inheritance & Survival
Before choice, there was conditioning.
Before language, there were lessons.
This act explores the experiences that shaped us long before we had the capacity to decide —
the homes we grew up in, the roles we learned to play, and the survival strategies we inherited without consent.
ACT I
Inheritance & Survival
Before choice, there was conditioning.
Before language, there were lessons.
This act explores the experiences that shaped us long before we had the capacity to decide —
the homes we grew up in, the roles we learned to play, and the survival strategies we inherited without consent.
Stories in this act
ACT II
Collapse, Reckoning & Unlearning
At some point, the scripts stop working.
We follow the rules, meet expectations, and do everything “right” —
yet still find ourselves disoriented, exhausted, or undone.
This act lives in the unraveling.
The moment survival no longer feels like living.
Stories in this act
ACT III
Return, Choice & Rewilding
What remains after illusion falls away?
Not answers. Not control.
But a quieter courage.
This act is about returning —
to the body, to truth, to choice.
Life does not become easier here.
It becomes more honest.
And from that honesty, something rooted begins to grow.
