Madhu_Kumarapeli
If you are reading this and you feel tired in a way you cannot explain, I want you to know something simple and true.
You are not too much for wanting love that feels safe. You are not wrong for needing kindness, attention, or care when your heart is heavy. And you are not difficult for hoping someone will stay when things get hard.
Sometimes we spend a long time trying to understand people who cannot meet us where we are. We give, we wait, we hope, and we slowly forget ourselves in the process. But love should never make you disappear from your own life.
If you have ever felt alone while being with someone, or unheard while speaking from your heart, I hope you learn this slowly, gently, in your own time, you do not have to earn love by hurting yourself.
There is nothing broken in you that needs fixing just because you wanted to be held with care.
May you find spaces where you can breathe without fear. May you find people who do not make you question your worth.
And most of all, may you learn that you do not have to shrink yourself to be loved.
You deserve love that feels like peace.
-Madhu-