but sadness was never meant to be worn forever. it isn’t meant to be profitable. it isn’t a moodboard. it is a place to pass through. and you don’t owe it to anyone to stay in that space for an audience, an algorithm, or an identity.

the truth is, there are people who only knew how to love you when you were breaking. they mistook your sadness for softness, your collapse for intimacy. and when you stopped showing it, even if it had never been a performance, they left. not out of cruelty, but because healing interrupts the loop; it reveals what they have not yet faced in themselv... See more