<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Personal on ⁀જ➣</title><link>https://alifnaufal.me/tags/personal/</link><description>Recent content in Personal on ⁀જ➣</description><image><title>⁀જ➣</title><url>https://alifnaufal.me/images/avatar.jpg</url><link>https://alifnaufal.me/images/avatar.jpg</link></image><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0700</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://alifnaufal.me/tags/personal/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>The Quiet Courage of Coming Back</title><link>https://alifnaufal.me/posts/the-quiet-courage-of-coming-back/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0700</pubDate><guid>https://alifnaufal.me/posts/the-quiet-courage-of-coming-back/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;After the worst thing in someone&amp;rsquo;s life, a person might stop living inside their body. They don&amp;rsquo;t leave it — they just stop being in it. The body becomes something they carry. A coat that won&amp;rsquo;t come off. A house that won&amp;rsquo;t sell.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A friend was sexually assaulted on her campus. The institution closed ranks around the person who did it. She was left standing outside alone.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;rsquo;t know what happened to her in those minutes. She might have gone somewhere her body wasn&amp;rsquo;t. Her body went still — that much I know. Couldn&amp;rsquo;t fight. Couldn&amp;rsquo;t run. And when it was over, she came back into herself and found that everything was technically where she left it, but none of it felt like hers.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Do you remember your lucky number?</title><link>https://alifnaufal.me/posts/do-you-remember-your-lucky-number/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 +0700</pubDate><guid>https://alifnaufal.me/posts/do-you-remember-your-lucky-number/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I never really got nervous around people my age. It just wasn&amp;rsquo;t my thing. But then there was this one girl in class I had zero clue how to talk to, so naturally, I just&amp;hellip; didn&amp;rsquo;t.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Somehow, despite my absolute lack of game, you were the one who actually started things. Which I then immediately managed to fuck up by ghosting you because of my own anxiety. Looking back, that was easily one of the dumbest, most self-sabotaging things I’ve ever done.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Hello World!</title><link>https://alifnaufal.me/posts/hello-world/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0700</pubDate><guid>https://alifnaufal.me/posts/hello-world/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;So this site started because I&amp;rsquo;m stubborn. Plain stubborn.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I got tired of writing on other people&amp;rsquo;s platforms and hoping the algorithm gods would bless me. Substack, Medium, WordPress — yeah, they&amp;rsquo;re easy. But easy in that way where you kind of know you&amp;rsquo;re giving something up. Like, sure, frozen pizza is easy too. But you didn&amp;rsquo;t really cook it, you know? Someone else made all the decisions for you. You just pushed the buttons.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>