I Chose Myself
I Chose Myself is a self-loyalty song.
It was written from the moment when endurance ends and self-abandonment is no longer an option. This piece names the quiet, often misunderstood choice to leave situations that require harm, silence, or self-erasure in order to stay.
Aligned with Nothing Is Required of You, this song does not frame choosing oneself as triumph or transformation. There is no demand to feel empowered, healed, or resolved. It offers sound as witness to a decision made for survival — not performance.
I Chose Myself acknowledges how often people are taught that staying is strength and leaving is failure. It counters that narrative without argument. It simply affirms that choosing one’s body, safety, and future is not selfish — it is necessary.
You are not required to relate.
You are not required to celebrate this choice.
You are not required to agree with it.
The choice remains regardless.
This song exists for those who reached the end of accommodation and chose themselves quietly, firmly, and without apology — even when no one else understood.
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Music by Julie Jewels Smoot / JS Worldbridger
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