Those monsters scream at your doorstep during the awakening of storms and although the sun shines once more, some of them enjoyed their stay- they never left.
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This book is primarily consolidated in order to encourage every soul to fight back aga...
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Right people will always stay. Sure, some may leave, but they'll soon regain their way.
You have consistently remained an open book by willingly welcoming temporary people and allowing them to deeply stain your pages with their permanent inks of shallowness. And people, being selfish, will even wipe their tears using your sheets before pulling each of your leaves apart— people hate others' growth.
Before long, they'll wound you with deceit and lies. Tearing you slowly without apologies and goodbyes. And as if they can't be more injurious, they'll carry a piece of you until all there's left to embrace are your torn, soiled, and fragmentary pages.
People will make you swallow for them the things they hate, even the things they thought were right for them— but weren't right for you. They'll force you to open your windows and doors without any hesitation.
People are fond of pain and misery. They gather around souls who are suffering; pretending to offer a hand when all they desired was for you to be indebted to them. Weaponizing kindness and masking abuse with ungratefulness. They'll make you feel wrong when you aren't.
Brave Soul, you'll eventually grow exhausted of accepting visitors, of generously allowing unknown explorers to land on your island. Your borders might turn into warzones and your seas would never be tamed once more. Please understand if you'll end up slowly closing your windows and doors— shutting unnecessary people out.
You are finally knowing your worth— this is growth. Losing unnecessary people will make you realize who remained true. Sometimes, we need to cut connections that bring nothing but unreciprocated signals.
If being too less is too much for them to handle, leave.
If being too much is still too less for them to merely love, leave.
I know you want to make them proud of you, but you also need to know you should stop hurting and disappointing yourself just to please others. It's absolutely fine. This isn't personal selfishness. It is your right to enjoy your solitude and people around you must respect that.
Loving yourself more isn't selfishness— never will be.
It may seem so impossible and strenuous to start over, but you'll never make it if you won't take the courage to plot a period and to start turning the page. Not for others, but for yourself this time.
Have you ever thought of it?
Why do our hand branch out into five fingers? Each one is built with gaps placed in between them.
The separation allows us to gratefully recognize all the pinky promises, the ring of vows, middle grounds, pointers, and the thumbs up and downs that accompany life. It is a discreet manifestation that it is fine for us to be gentler with ourselves; to smile and achieve our dreams without seeking others' validation; to create our own space.
Those considerable distances serve as a reminder that even though we cautiously venture into the same world, we still need to go separate ways to function better, to grow, to maintain our own space, to breathe rhythmically, and most importantly, to reconnect and intimately intertwine bridges with others.
Cheer up, brave soul!
It's not too late to sincerely love the one who had persistently rooted for you.
It's not too late to start loving yourself more.
Start by telling yourself,
"I am proud that I am you."
This is precisely the intimacy of separation.
To create distance and to lose unnecessary people to gain back ourselves.
