the Life I Was Supposed to Have (Vol I): Poems for Years That Didn’t Go Plan

What happens when the life you were supposed to have never arrives?You watch friends get married, buy homes, travel, build careers, and move forward while you are still trying to make rent, find love, save money, make friends, and figure out when your own life is finally going to begin.The Life I Was Supposed to Have is a collection of modern poetry about feeling behind in life-and the quiet grief of watching the future you imagined move farther away.Through poems about loneliness, dating apps, ageing, financial anxiety, comparison, friendship, housing, work, social media, consumerism, and the rising cost of simply being alive, Postmodern Ghost gives words to feelings many people carry but rarely say aloud.These poems are for anyone who has looked at someone else's engagement, promotion, holiday, new home, or seemingly perfect life and quietly wondered: What happened to mine?But this is not a book about giving up.It is about letting go of somebody else's timeline. About finding meaning in an imperfect life. About discovering that being late is not the same as being lost-and that a life which did not go according to plan can still become a life worth living.For anyone who feels left behind, lonely, financially overwhelmed, uncertain about the future, or simply tired of watching everyone else seem to get there first.You have not missed your life. You are still living it.