PEOPLE CAN BREAK US
That people can break us.
And it's even scarier that it's possible to break us in a beautiful way — in the most beautiful, even.
By making us feel special.
With all words but only occasional actions.
By making us think we're their everything, and then nothing all of a sudden — sometimes at the same time.
The scariest part of it all, if you think of it, is that they could ruin us in the most beautiful way there is, to the point that repairing ourselves would feel strange.
And then we stop trying.
We stop fighting for ourselves.
We settle.
We start doubting ourselves.
We lose sight of the silver lining altogether.
And then we just go back, because it's familiar, because it's easier.
And then we just let it be; we stay, to go through it over and over again.
Probably a hundred times more than the last time.
