I Don’t Think People Understand How Hard It Is When Your Toxic Trait Is Self Isolation Plus Avoidance.

You are gone, no longer mine, A distant echo in the corridors of time. I lost you… and in that endless ache, I lost myself—a soul adrift, opaque. In trying to accept, I came undone, A fading shadow, chasing the sun. Now, I stand, yet I am no more, Not who I was, not like before.

“You don’t have to explain your dreams, they belong to you.”

— Paulo Coelho

“You have to meet people where they are, and sometimes you have to leave them there.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

— Nikita Gill

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole life fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”

— F.Scott Fitzgerald

She is 10, but do you know she likes to stay in her head? She is used to disappointment, needs care, overthinks a lot, needs constant reassurance, relies on her writings and books to keep her sane, is possessive, loves way too hard, and shuts down when anyone tries to talk to her about her feelings. She distances herself when she feels like an option; she hurts herself. She is 10, but do you know that?