There's this strange kind of peace that blooms when you stop taking everything so personally. When someone's silence, their leaving, or their harsh words no longer feel like a judgement of you, but just pieces of their own battles, it's like the air clears around your heart. People drift, they falter, they change, and most of the time it's never about you. Sometimes people carry storms inside them you were never meant to calm. It's just life moving in its own messy, beautiful rhythm. So stop planting roots in hearts that were only passing through. Stop bending yourself to fit the shadows of others. And when you finally stop trying to be seen or understood by everyone... that's when you start seeing yourself more clearly, maybe clearer than ever.