Overprotection

Overprotection is a coat too heavy for a body still learning how to feel the cold. It’s a hand that never lets go, even when the road calls for steps of one’s own. A roof that keeps out the storm… but also the sun.

There’s something of a soft cage in it: it doesn’t wound, but it confines. A form of care that overflows, that in trying to prevent the fall, also interrupts the possibility of flight. A constant vigilance that replaces experience with the anticipation of danger.

At its core, there is love-yes-but a love threaded with fear. And that fear, quiet and persistent, builds a world smaller than the one that actually exists.

family archive + glitch + Ps manipulation 2026

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