we often suffer more from the stories we create in our minds than from the people who hurt us, as the pain we imagine can be greater than the pain they cause.
you have to give yourself permission to grow. learn the difference between being lonely and choosing to be alone. one drains your peace; the other helps you find it.
Ai kind of ruined the joy of social media. we used to scroll with curiosity, now we scroll with suspicion. you can’t trust what you see anymore, and when nothing feels real, interaction stops feeling real too. The art of scrolling is gone.