🔑 The 12th Door | "I'm fine just the way I am." ...Are you really sure? -- To my future self

📖 Reading time: approx. 10 minutes
✍️ Exercise: approx. 10-15 minutes
📅 Last updated: July 30, 2026

🌿 Introduction

I'm Yukiyo-chan, and I'm here to help you gently untangle the knots in your heart🌿

Up to this point,
you have truly done your best.

As you walked through these 12 doors,

you have,
met many versions of yourself.

The self that compares yourself to others.

The self that has kept on trying so hard.

The self that was hurt.

The self that wanted to cry.

The self that truly wanted someone to understand.

And,

little by little,

the self that has started to remember how to "feel."

Today,

is the final door.

However,

this is not the end.

From here on out,

it is time for you to walk your own life.

🌬 The here and now is everything

Take your usual deep breath

Chant "The here and now is everything" three times.

🌿 Today's question

In these past 12 weeks,

what have you gained?

……

Perhaps,

you might feel like nothing has increased.

But,

there may be those who have let something go.

"I have to do things properly."

"I have to try harder."

"I must not be disliked."

"Who am I to..."

Have you been able to put down,

even just a little, the baggage you have carried for so long?

And,

to the you of today,

I offer one more question.

"I'm fine just the way I am."

...

Are you really sure?

🌿 Things I remembered on this journey

This journey,

was not a journey to become a new version of yourself.

Not to become stronger.

Not to become more positive.

And not to become like someone else.

It was a journey for you,

to remember who you truly are.

The part of you that compares yourself to others.

The part of you that gets angry.

The part of you that feels sad.

The part of you that feels anxious.

All of them,

were parts of you that were necessary to survive until today.

So,

every part of you,

you don't have to push away anymore.

✍️ Final Exercise

Today,

to your future self,

you will write a letter.

STEP 1 | To your current self

First,

not to the future,

but to your current self,

please write some words.

For 12 weeks,

you have truly done a great job.

Thank you.

You have walked a long way to get here.

Any words will do.

Please try writing the words that you,

as you are now, want to send to yourself.

STEP 2 | To your future self

A year from now,

five years from now,

or ten years from now.

To your future self,

Let's try writing a letter.

What do you want to have achieved?

What kind of scenery do you want to be seeing?

What kind of feelings do you want to be smiling with?

It's okay if you don't try to write it perfectly.

Please try writing a letter that your future self,

will want to read again on days when they feel lost.

STEP 3 | Things I want to cherish from now on

Finally,

let's try writing down this question.

From now on, what do I

want to cherish as I live my life?

It's okay if you don't find the answer,

today.

The question,

will grow little by little,

in your everyday life.

🌿 It's okay not to rush

Even after this journey ends,

There are days when I compare myself to others again.

There are days when I blame myself.

There are days when I come to a standstill.

But,

that is okay.

What is important is,

not to stop comparing yourself.

And not to stop blaming yourself.

It is that, each time,

"Oh, I was struggling just now, weren't I?"

being able to notice that.

And,

no matter how many times,

being able to return to yourself.

🌙 Conclusion

This book,

was not a book to change you.

It was not a book to make you try harder, either.

It was not a book to make you become like someone else, either.

It is for you to,

This was a book to help you remember yourself.

If,

you feel lost again tomorrow.

you find yourself comparing yourself to others.

you find yourself blaming yourself.

On days like that,

please come back to the first door.

Take a deep breath.

Quietly,

try chanting it in your heart.

The here and now is everything.

And,

just one more time,

I will deliver the question.

"I am fine just as I am."

...

Are you really sure?

The answer to that question,

is not something someone else can tell you.

It is you who,

In the life that lies ahead,

you will find it little by little.

Thank you so much for walking with me

this far.

May your life be something

that is not defined by someone else's idea of what is right,

but something you can walk while cherishing your own way of feeling.

With heartfelt gratitude.

Yukiyo 🌿

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🌿 Afterword | After finishing the journey of returning to your true self

To you, who have finished walking through the 12 doors.

I have written what I would like to share with you one last time about the "many versions of me" I met on this journey and about returning to your true self.

If you'd like, please take your time reading this final page as well.