Da'ita ⚕

Insightful only by accident | Here for the prose, the rabbit holes, & the quiet tragedies of adulting | One bad decision at a time.

[Da'ita ⚕ @daitamd]

@Thebiglade …you were never too much. You were simply with people who had very little capacity.

[Da'ita ⚕ @daitamd]

@Nithya_Shrii Harder still - receiving it from someone who loves you. A stranger's criticism is easy to dismiss. When the person who knows you best says "you could do better," that is where maturity is actually tested.

[Da'ita ⚕ @daitamd]

@DearS_o_n What you actually lose is the habit of extended thought. The world now offers everything in fragments. A man who stops reading lives entirely inside other people's conclusions.

[Da'ita ⚕ @daitamd]

@ManOfFocus_ Everyone cries for the mother. Everyone prays for the father. The eldest son just... adjusts. He learns early that his pain is a disruption. So he files it somewhere quiet & keeps moving.

[Da'ita ⚕ @daitamd]

@ManOfFocus_ Every man who ever built something worth inheriting had a season where nobody clapped, nobody called & the mirror was the only witness. That season is not punishment. It is preparation.

[Da'ita ⚕ @daitamd]

@Varticoo One thing I know for certain - the people who support you before the numbers arrive are the ones worth keeping after. Find those people. Be those people.

[Da'ita ⚕ @daitamd]

@lawrencekitema The sky belongs to no one. But the fall is entirely yours. Fly anyway.

[Da'ita ⚕ @daitamd]

@_belikebaddy I write about the things that happen after the story ends. The grief, the growth, the quiet. If you're here for noise, wrong account. If you're here for the prose - pull up a chair.

[Da'ita ⚕ @daitamd]

@_falsi1ke The person who broke your heart may have been the most honest person in your life. They showed you who you were settling for. And who you were becoming by staying.

[Da'ita ⚕ @daitamd]

@Thebiglade …you were never too much. You were simply with people who had very little capacity.

[Da'ita ⚕ @daitamd]

@ManOfFocus_ The loneliness is not the problem. The problem is how long a man will delay fixing his life just to avoid it.

[Da'ita ⚕ @daitamd]

@ManOfFocus_ Also, learn to recognize which conversations do not require your opinion. They are asking for your presence. Those are two very different requests & most men answer the wrong one every time.

[Da'ita ⚕ @daitamd]

@lawrencekitema Somewhere, a version of you on their knees asking for exactly this would be furious at how casually you carry it now. That version deserved better. So does what you have.

[Malvin @ManOfFocus_]

Once you realize that anything can happen; sickness, death, lose your job... Literally, anything in the blink of an eye, you become very humble. Tables turn and that's how crazy life can get.

Always stay humble, and be grateful.

[Da'ita ⚕ @daitamd]

@ManOfFocus_ And what this pattern quietly omits - someone always keeps the world running while the man disappears. A mother. A partner. A friend. Focused men rarely include that part in the story.

[Da'ita ⚕ @daitamd]

@ManOfFocus_ I used to apologize for my schedule. Early nights. Small circles. No drama. Nobody tells you the life people call boring is the one you actually survive long enough to enjoy.

[Da'ita ⚕ @daitamd]

@unkonfined I receive that. Now watch.

[Da'ita ⚕ @daitamd]

@lawrencekitema Peace also requires the courage to remove what constantly disturbs it. Gratitude alone cannot fix a life that still contains the wrong people. Good morning.

[Da'ita ⚕ @daitamd]

@_leeron_ @IAmSteveHarvey @mrisaacmukisa Love here is not limited to romantic love.

[Da'ita ⚕ @daitamd]

@btrfli @unkonfined Precisely as should be.