03/23/2026
“I’ve been thinking about how people say
“it all happens for a reason” and how that sounds comforting until you’re the one sitting in the aftermath of something that didn’t need to happen at all, and you’re left trying to force meaning onto pain just so it doesn’t feel wasted, like if you can explain it then it won’t hurt as much, but some things don’t arrive to teach you anything, they just arrive and leave damage behind, and I wonder how much of what we call growth is really just learning how to live with things we never deserved,
how often we confuse healing with getting used to the hurt, and whether becoming “stronger” is sometimes just another way of saying we learned how to carry what should’ve never been ours to hold.” ❤️.writes.poetry
