relationships
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Humanity spends much of its life trying to avoid storms. We plan, prepare, save for rainy days, and check weather forecasts and build shelters against uncertainty. We spend years trying to create stability, hoping that if we are careful enough, we can avoid heartbreak, failure, loss, and disappointment, yet some of life’s most transformative moments…
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One of life’s unavoidable truths is that people move on. What hurts most isn’t that someone hates us, forgets to call, or even chooses another path, it is the realization that their story continued without us. They turned the page, and suddenly we are left wondering whether we mattered at all. The terrifying possibility the…
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Everyone knows of you, but they do not truly know you. Perhaps because you never gave them the chance. And that is not necessarily a failure. Sometimes hiding parts of yourself was the safest thing you could do. Perhaps it was easier to become the quiet one, the strong one, the agreeable one. The version…
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We spend so much of our lives being haunted. By people who left. By versions of them that no longer exist. By the quiet question of what did I do to make them go? We replay their words and our favorite moments over and over, flipping through a stored memory book we know we shouldn’t…
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“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” – Leo Tolstoy One of my favorite lines in literature, but we are often more alike in our unhappiness than we realize. Each family’s pain manifests differently, in varying intensity, yet these truths exist in nearly every household. The saddest part…
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You walked to our lives as if you were a kind of balm designed to cure what never healed. Instead You ripped through us, almost gleeful as we bled into the open air, but healing doesn’t need to wound flesh just to prove it was broken. You damaged us just so you could pretend heal…
Black Ink and Parchment 