In Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, the Mad Hatter looks at Alice — no longer the fearless child but a grown woman, uncertain and careful — and says:

“You used to be much more… muchier. You’ve lost your muchness.”

That line was never in Lewis Carroll’s book, but it feels like it always belonged. Because isn’t that what happens to all of us? We begin with our own too muchness — laughing too loud, dreaming too wildly, feeling too deeply. It’s the rawest, truest part of who we are. And then life begins to trim it down. Expectations, judgments, polite smiles, raised brows… until one day we quietly tuck our muchness away, thinking it is safer that way.

But the world has always been moved by those who were called “too much.” The wild laughers, the stubborn dreamers, the ones who never learned how to shrink. Society may dismiss them as dramatic or crazy, yet they are the ones who carry change in their pockets and light in their eyes.

Maybe we are all a little like Alice, falling through our own rabbit holes — heartbreaks, fears, duties — losing fragments of our muchness along the way. But here’s the secret: you’re not meant to lose it. You’re meant to guard it.

🌸 Guard your spark, because dimming never saved a soul.

Too muchness is not a flaw. It is your fingerprint, your courage, your rebellion against becoming invisible. It is the very thing that makes you irreplaceably, unapologetically you.

— Suvi’s Scribbles

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