That truth hurts—but it doesn’t make your love foolish or your heart too much.
It simply means you gave deeply in a place that could only hold you lightly.
Accept what they show you. Protect your peace. And never beg for the same love you give so freely.
I’m learning that being important to someone is not always the same as being important to them in the way they are to you.
Sometimes, you make people a priority while they only make room for you when it’s convenient. 👇👇
Everyone has an opinion on your relationship. Almost none of them are in it.
They see him at dinner. Polite. Funny when it counts. Good with your family. On paper, he checks out.
They don't see the silence in the car on the way home. The conversation you keep almost starting and then don't. The way you've gotten quieter around him without deciding to.
That's not a contradiction. It's just two different sets of evidence.
Their approval is real. It's just incomplete.
You're the only one who has the whole picture, and you're allowed to trust it, even when it doesn't match the version everyone else is voting on.
Sometimes, the person lying to you… is you.
You make excuses.
You ignore what hurts.
You convince yourself it isn't that bad.
Until one day,
you've believed the lie for so long
that the truth feels wrong.
Self-deception doesn't hide reality.
It makes you forget how to see it.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
@alon_mizrahi I am lucky to find you X account @alon_mizrahi . Thank you for sharing such valuable perspective.
Yes you are right, Only power is illusion and courage is reality. We must stand with Humanit, Afterall we are humans.💔