There are landscapes to walk through, books to read, conversations to savor, wines to taste, sunsets to appreciate, and many other small pleasures of a simple life.
You are allowed to outgrow the life people praised you for building.
Read that again.
Some cages come with applause.
Some jails have health insurance.
Some deaths get called stability by people who stopped breathing years ago and got good at smiling through it.
The ability to remake calm in stressful situations
is a superpower.
When everyone around you is losing their sh*t
Be the one who is able to think straight.
History has been written by such men.
Every time you absorbed disrespect to keep the peace.
Each of those moments taught her something about you.
And what they taught her was: this is not a man I need to take seriously.
You are not failing at the game.
You are playing the wrong game entirely.
Making her happy was never the goal.
And every move you have made toward that goal has been a move away from what she actually needs from you.
You cannot reach the top without going through shitty periods where nothing is happening.
Failure is part of the journey.
If you give up everytime you fail ... you wont amount to much