Why You Need to Learn to Comfort Yourself

Amelia Zimmerman
2 min readSep 30, 2021
Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash

The cold reality of adulthood is that there won’t always be someone around to make you feel better.

Parents find lives of their own, friendships wax and wane, time zones push out response times, partnerships burst, intimacy slides.

No longer can you run, screaming and tear-streaked, into an adult’s arms.

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Amelia Zimmerman

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