just because you don't require much doesn't mean you deserve the bare minimum

you notice everything.

you notice everything. you notice when the effort shifts, when the energy changes, when you are the one holding things together without anyone acknowledging it. you notice how you start conversations, how you maintain them, how you keep showing up in ways that are not being mirrored back to you. and the worst part is not that you notice it, the worst part is that you keep explaining it away. you keep finding reasons for it, you keep softening the reality of it, you keep telling yourself that maybe this is enough, maybe this is what it looks like now. i have done this more times than i want…

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• Sarayu Nambiar

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