I bought this pink bag after a really bad breakup. Not as a” revenge purchase “just because my apartment felt too quiet.
After my breakup, everyone expected me to do something dramatic.
Cut my hair.
Travel somewhere.
Start dating immediately.
Instead, I mostly just sat alone eating takeout on my kitchen floor.
One night I randomly came across this pink bag online.
Normally I would’ve called it “too much.”
Too soft.
Too feminine.
Too unrealistic for my actual life.
But for some reason, I kept going back to look at it every night.
At one point I realized:
it wasn’t really about the bag.
It was because everything in my life suddenly felt heavy.
And this was one small thing that didn’t.
So I got it.
The funny thing is, nobody even reacted the way I expected.
My friends didn’t think it was dramatic.
My coworkers barely noticed.
But every time I carried it,
I felt slightly more like myself again.
Not the version of me from before.
Just… a softer new version I hadn’t met yet.
Now when I see it sitting by the door, I don’t think about the breakup anymore.
I just think:
“I survived that year.”