When Dostoevsky said:
“Isolate as much as you want to become stronger, even if you see that loneliness is an unbearable hell, it is much better than the multiple masks of humans”
there’s a strange kind of loneliness that comes from always being the strong one. everyone knows you’ll figure it out, so they stop asking if you’re okay. sometimes you don’t need advice, you just want someone to notice that you’re tired too.