#selfworth
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the great lock-in, but make it soft
if you’ve been online lately, you’ve seen it everywhere—the great lock-in, the winter arc, the ins + outs lists flooding timelines like a collective deep breath before the new year. everyone is “locking in,” recalibrating, promising a better version of themselves before january even arrives. and honestly? i don’t hate the idea. i just refuse…
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what i look for in my partners
i am not looking for perfection. i am not looking for a fairytale that never argues, never missteps, never gets messy. i am looking for something far rarer than that: a person who shows up. a person whose love has weight to it. a person whose presence isn’t a performance, but a practice. i look…
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when two bitter people link together
“bitterness can link two people in a heartbeat, stitching their wounds together like matching scars. but a bond built on resentment is a fragile thing — loud at first, then hollow, then gone. only truth has the steadiness to hold, only honesty has the spine to last, and only light can keep anything standing after…
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the quiet heartbreak of trying to shift an unmoving soul
some truths don’t crash into me—they arrive like a slow bruise, deepening day by day until i can’t pretend not to feel them anymore. and this one… this one has been settling in my bones for a long time: i cannot move someone who has chosen not to budge. it doesn’t matter how much i…
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love deserves to be shown, not just spoken
there’s an ache that comes from hearing the words “i love you” without feeling their weight. sometimes love sounds perfect in theory—soft, reassuring, familiar—but words, when left unaccompanied, begin to lose their strength. they echo instead of embrace. they become whispers instead of warmth. love isn’t meant to stay trapped in sentences; it’s meant to…


