love
Loving someone means you make them fall more in love with themselves, not more in love with you. The best love is a mirror held steady, not a magnet pulling everything toward its centre. It asks: what are you becoming?, not what do you think of me? Infatuation needs an audience; love builds one. The person who leaves your presence feeling more... See more
Tamarasubstack.com
i think the hardest part about connection is realizing just how rare it is to be understood. not just liked, not just tolerated, but felt. it’s someone who gets it, reaching into the quietest part of you and saying, “i know this place too.” and when you do find that feeling, even for a moment, it changes you. you start craving it everywhere.
jerichosubstack.comOne of the rarest feelings in the world is resonance. That immediate flicker of recognition when something is finely tuned to you. It deciphers your interiority, feeds your innermost desire to feel seen and known.
Nix • the delight of specificity
attraction doesn’t visit me often, so when it does, i don’t experience it as something casual or easy to dismiss. there’s a strange kind of recognition in it like something in them has brushed against a part of me i forget was still there. i find myself trying to understand why this person, out of everyone else, has somehow reached that tender... See more
jericho (@themme)
as it turns out, the love I gave to you never truly had anything to do with you, it was simply a bare reflection, and a mere extension of me