Black Letter

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@Mr_Husky1 The term is anomie. It’s a gap between the rules people still expect and the rules that now run daily life. It fades once the new normal becomes boring and reliable, usually within a decade or so, but it’s a difficult place to be. Like in a fog 😞

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@zerohedge Some wounds were inflicted by others. Some darkness we invited in ourselves.

But spend your life hunting for someone to blame, and you may never notice the knife in your own hand

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@deeeeoflagos There’s a particular cruelty in being punished by someone you made exceptions for.
You lowered the drawbridge because you loved them.
They mistook the open gate for permission to burn the castle

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@mrjaxtaylor Yes. Not every victory looks like slaying the monster.

Sometimes victory is simply making it through another morning without becoming what tried to destroy you

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There comes an age when you have to stop putting every ghost in your house on your parents.

Maybe some of your anger is deserved. But eventually, the house becomes yours.

You can spend your life cursing whoever broke the windows or become the one who finally lets the light back in

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@TiberiusStone25 @eyojoel77 I’m so sorry! I have been there as well. The good news is that we can heal and move past it! 🤗🤗

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Feelings move through the house like ghosts.
They slam a door. They sit on the bed. Wander the halls.
They are not the owner.
You can let one stay the night.
You don’t have to give it the keys. In the morning you’re still here, and it has already started to leave

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@JonoproJon I did! It has to do with a realization I had during a tense moment with a parent recently. It was very eye opening 🤗

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I had rehearsed the leaving. I had rehearsed the silence. I had not rehearsed staying in the room and saying the thing.
Then I said it.
The worst version of the moment arrived, and I was still okay

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@WPLGLocal10 Not uncommon to find bodies in the Redlands 😞

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@alphaman_111 Hurting someone when they’re already bleeding tells you something ordinary cruelty doesn’t.

Some people see an open wound and reach for a bandage.

Others see where to put the knife

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@justalexoki Maybe the greatest self-help book was never written.

It was living. Getting lost. Choosing wrong. Loving deeply. Losing things. Beginning again.

Life writes its wisdom in scars, not margins

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@Dearme2_ Some hands will pull you from the grave only so they can spend the rest of your life reminding you who dug you out.

Not every rescue is an act of mercy. Some are the beginning of a debt.

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@Omgemeraldddd There’s something beautiful about the fact that no two souls want quite the same life.

We were never meant to haunt identical houses

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@schiz04renic Not wanting children is a choice. Resenting their existence is something else entirely.
A society that begins to see its children as an inconvenience has forgotten something ancient and important:

We were all once the noise in someone else’s quiet world

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@designmom Some loves are beautiful and still belong to an earlier version of us.
There’s no tragedy in waiting until you know the version who will have to live with the choice.

Forever is a long time to be haunted by a decision made by someone you no longer are

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@JennMGreenberg We tore down the old fences because they felt restrictive, then acted surprised when we found ourselves wandering in the dark.

Not every boundary was a prison.
Some were there to keep us from the cliff.

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@PropHunterB Did a bunch in Progresso Point in FtL a while back. Now Cresthaven in Pompano and another set in Palm Aire Villages in Lauderdale and I my Nextdoor neighbor did the full reno and his house is still sitting on the market 😬