no one talks about the personality shift as you get older. where you no longer want to be impressive, you want to be rested. you want to be regulated and completely unavailable to anything that drains you.
ngl having people that love you is one thing. But having people who still love you when youโre a burden, when things are a mess, when youโre in the wrongโฆthose are your people. to truly be loved is to still be loved when itโs inconvenient to love you.