you’re a person because you feel like onebecause we feel like it to ourselvesit’s about how it feels to bewe feel like somethingsomething tryingsomething real
Reflect
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pain and peace can hold handschaos and grief can laughyou can say “this hurt me” and STILL LOVEintensity isn’t violence, it’s honesty
some people spiritualize everythingto avoid emotional accountability they use faith as a shieldnot to connect but to deflectthey flood conversations with itto shut down hard truthsthey’re unwilling to face it looks like graceit feels like guiltit functions as control
the word entitled gets weaponized too easilyit is often used to shut someone downwhen they’re expressing a real needor expressing what is hurting themespecially if that person has beenmargninalized, dismissed, orexpected to just be grateful and quiet it’s a convenient way to avoid responsibility it’s not entitlement to ask or want or needto be heard and treated with care
spiritualityshould make people softer, not hardermore open, not more self-righteousshould not be clinging to a rulebookthat helps them not look inside their self
structure serves us for a whilethere was a reason it was bornbut when everything changesand it doesn’t adaptit falls apart
people retain controlthen shun others who are hurtingthey don’t want to seethe true reason behind the hurtand they never look at the thingsthat could actually make it better
why turn away from possibilitywhen everything in the world is createdone way or anotherthrough intentionthrough desirewe are allowed to createnot just inheritnot just to survivebut to question the patternsthat are harming uswe are allowed to shape the patternto what is more meaningful nowwith every choice we make
history repeats itselfbecause people forget the lessons are therethe wisdom is therebut people aren’t ableto apply them beyondwhat they see in the story it’s treated like a thingthat happened back thento those peopleunder those conditions the story was never justabout the charactersit was about all of usit’s right here
love isn’t love if it waits for you to collapseif it’s only given when you are crawlingthen it was never for you to start with
We build meaningby loopingby layeringby spiraling inwarduntil it breaks open
It just is. It’s because we recognized each other.It just is.And it always will be.
if someone’s care for you can’t withstand your truth, it was never carejust compliancejust conditional closenessjust access to the version of you they preferred