i just realized people who overexplain themselves aren’t looking for validation. They’re just used to not being believed - forced to prove their memories, their pain, their worth, their truth - until they’re exhausted from just existing
Nobody talks about the type of heartbreak where you don't cry anymore, you just stare at walls and feel nothing at all. It's not anger. It's not sadness.
It's the silence that comes when your nervous system has shut down from too much pain. It's emotional exhaustion disguised as calm.
It’s a different type of pain when you’re sitting in your room at night and suddenly you get hit by a wave of sadness while all you can do is suffer in silence.
Be careful what you tolerate. You're teaching people how to treat you. Every favor you do while running on empty, every disrespect you laugh off, you’re writing the manual on how they’ll handle you. Then you wonder why your time isn’t respected. Truth is, you taught them not to.