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None of us are easy to be with - by hasif 💌

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Sometimes the hardest person to be with is yourself.

None of us are easy to be with. Not in the long run. Not when the days get quieter and the masks start slipping. Not when the infatuation fades and the real parts of us begin to surface, insecurities, the little routines we didn’t even realize we had, the habits that once seemed charming but slowly begin to irritate. Not when the small talk dies down and we’re left with nothing but the full weight of our histories sitting silently between us. We all come with something. Baggage, wounds, half-healed chapters. Versions of ourselves that we’re still learning to forgive. There are days when we…

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