toxic empathy
Some hearts were never taught how to close their doors.
Some hearts were never taught how to close their doors.
When we look up at the night sky, we are not looking at the present.
Sometimes silence isn't empty.
Sometimes it's the first place where your heart finally realizes it doesn't have to defend itself anymore.
I've spent so long carrying tension that I forgot what it felt like to simply exist. Every conversation felt heavy. Every glance carried words that were never spoken. Every day seemed to end with another crack that...
As a child, I thought healing meant going back to the way things were before. That wounds disappeared. That pain simply faded. That one day, everything would feel normal again.
There are goodbyes we understand. We see the last glance. Hear the last words. Close a door. And know a chapter has ended.
There are people who seem incredibly strong. They help, they keep going, they laugh, and they carry responsibility. Yet every single day, they fight a battle no one else can see.
Have you ever met someone who makes every room feel lighter the moment they walk in?
Someone who laughs a little louder.
Talks a little faster.
Dreams a little bigger.
Most people call them "a lot."
Very few ever ask what it's actually feels like to live inside their mind.
When, in reality, they've only seen the surface....
There are people who touch our hearts.
There are battles no one ever sees.
Like butterflies, we drift through life,
carried by winds we cannot see,
sometimes light as summer air,
sometimes heavy with all the things
our hearts long to hold.
Most people know the night as a place of rest. They close their eyes, pull the blanket up to their chin, and trust that someone is watching over them while they dream.
At some point, we grow up. Not on a specific day. Not all at once. It happens quietly. Between schedules and responsibilities. Between bills that need to be paid and nights that suddenly seem too short. And without even noticing, we stop looking for shapes in the clouds. We walk past flowers without taking in their scent. We watch sunsets...
Just as the sun reaches for the horizon with every new dawn,
Sometimes I stand in front of the mirror and look at the woman staring back at me.
Like bees, we move through life, guided by forces we don't always understand,
First love is like the first spring. It arrives after a long winter, without you knowing that somewhere beneath the frozen ground, something has already begun to grow.